Teachers and teacher education facing information and communication technologies

Information technology and communication technology are evolving and converging, giving rise to new tools for teaching and learning. Step by step, a new profession is emerging: the teacher of tomorrow. This paper will try to describe what the profession of the teacher of tomorrow will be like. Education now needs for its goals a real generalisation and a real integration of new technologies, but generalisation and integration are possible only if teacher education is redesigned. The paper will outline some elements for teacher education, from experiences in France. It is clearly impossible to provide a new teacher with all the competencies and knowledge he (she) will need throughout his (her) career. Therefore, one must provide new teachers with ''basic'' competencies and knowledge, and prepare them to evolve and adapt. Consequently, not only the content of the training is important, but the methods used in teacher training play a major role.