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The Portuguese Ministry of Education has intervened in the Technologies and Information Systems (TIS) of the educational system with a Technological Plan for Education (TPE). The TPE is the Portuguese initiative for ICT in education, and is an intervention in three axis - Technology axis, Contents and Training which cover in an integrated and transverse way all areas related to the modernization of the educational system in Portugal. The full impact generated by this action is of particular importance due to the high performance enabled by the integration of ICT in the management and quality of the educational system thus allowing for an increase in confidence, performance and competitiveness. In this paper we follow a model in the implementation of the TPE in secondary schools. It shows a solution we came up. A strategic plan and is iterative assessment, from the need to address this problem.
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Castro, A., Santos, L. (2011). Implementation of the Technological Plan for Education in Portugal, a School Perspective. In: Tatnall, A., Kereteletswe, O.C., Visscher, A. (eds) Information Technology and Managing Quality Education. ITEM 2010. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 348. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19715-4_8
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