Promoting Social Interaction in Class by Effective Utilization of ICT

This work identifies the aspects of the computer's unique potential contribution to promoting social processes in the classroom and develops a model engaging in maximizing the effectiveness of technological tools and their level of impact on social processes. This includes an examination of the opportunities, provided by using computers in learning-teaching processes, understanding and describing the teacher's difficulty in promoting social processes in the computerized classroom, demonstrating the complexity of the education system to adapt innovation and change; deducing the obstacles for teachers to effectively implement technology into their teaching strategies, displaying different models for maximal utilization of ICT tools in the learning teaching process, and finally, offering indicators to evaluate and reflect on the process.