The role of tics in e-information and guidance throught life: Analysis of the european situation

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The incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies in the society in general and in the education system, especially in training and guidance throughout the life of the people, demands significant changes in technological and organizational fields as well as the educational settings and learning and formal and informal guidance environments. In the European context the transformations in wide social sectors through ICT has not yet become generalized in the training and guidance process. Among the most innovative tools in the use of ICT for training and guidance, in addition to more familiar as the telephone, email and the Internet there are others to stress such as videoconferencing, chat and forum. As social software tools can cite the Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Flicker, Second Life, MySpace... and other technological resources such as interactive whiteboard, the portfolio and the content management system(CMS).In the various European conferences on the use of ICT in guidance has been shifting the center of attention; is begins by treating of guidance systems supported by the computer (Brussels, 1985, Cambridge,1989 and Nuremberg in 1992); is continues by the use of Internet in the Dublin conference, 1996 and is considered the digital age in Gothenburg in 2001 and Web 2.0 technology in Riga, at the 6th Conference held in the moth of September 2009.