Outline for the essay

I’m interest in the potential of ICT for education, but new communications technologies have developed so fast that for me, as a psychologist, a questions rise: Does exist a theoretical perspective on the learning process that can be used as a foundation of how to construct pedagogically valuable tools based on ICT? Which(what) are the affordability and constrains of interactive educational multimedia? This two questions were too open and complex to answer, so I decided to find answers to smaller questions, trying to get an idea of the affordability or constrains of ICT. Great help come to me from DBLP that provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings and psychinfo, but in writing this essay I used, more books. So…“Teachers are going to lose some of their control over the learning process once interactive media are introduced into teaching?” Lydia Plowman (Plowman, 1996a)points out the importance of a narrative structure for understanding in educational setting, but in her study found that learners with interactive media lacked overall strategies for dealing with a task. Another question is “In which way or in which field teaching with interactive media is better than teaching in an old style way?” I discovered that ICT in special needs education is very important, as I read in Cromby(Cromby, 1997), who draws attention to three characteristics of virtual environments that make them particularly appropriate for people with learning difficulties .I concluded that there are lot of issues using new communication technologies for learning, such as “Digital Divide” and the lack of understanding of the complex process contributing to human learning and how they interact with new technologies. But if the study in pedagogy and psychology will go on I think ICT could revolutionizing education.