Educational, Social and Cultural Aspects of ICT

An intensive development of information technologies initiated in the late 20^th century, has led to the beginning of a completely new dimension and a new quality of interpersonal communication. The process of social communication turned out to be a factor which significantly influences human lifestyle.  Since a lifestyle is one of the important elements of cultural reality, the result of changes in information technologies has been development and continuous formation of a new, global society already named a media society. When starting a work on the paper I was thinking how to start my considerations – from the social and cultural aspects of ICT or from the educational aspects? I asked myself a question if it is culture and society which influence the shape of educational reality or whether it is education which shapes culture and society. Solving this problems turned out to be as difficult a task as answering the question: Which came first, the chicken? Or the egg? Therefore, I think it cannot be denied that each of these three aspects is strictly connected with one another, and even coupled, one can say. Culture influences education, education influences culture, culture and education shape the society, as well as the society shapes culture and education. When considering culture, education and society as a certain wholeness, then functioning of this wholeness can be compared to functioning of a human brain, which as the exclusive organ in a human body is able to analyse itself and form itself to a certain degree (although there are limits to it).