Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo
and CITIDEP - Portugal. E-mail: jose.portela@ese.ipvc.pt
Internet is allowing (and provoking) new models
of teaching and learning. The communication through the Internet
among teachers, among students, and between students and teachers,
allied to the fact of allowing to the most isolated of the schools
to communicate with anybody in any part of the world, is revolutionizing
the concept of the classroom, transforming the educators' role
and altering the notion that the students have on the information
that they need to know. Our future teachers' preparation cannot
pass to the side! The results of the research in the area of "Internet
in education" should be reinvested in the teachers' preparation
and in the projects to develop with students.