Overall, based on the findings of the first stage of the VIV12 research project we can say that ICT literacy
education does not concern only the ICT-orientated subjects in primary and lower-secondary schools. Using ICT in the subjects that do not focus on informatics primarily and in a number of educational ICT activities which are not
directly linked to subject contributes significantly to the development of information technology competencies. ICT literacy education realized in ICT-orientated subjects tends to focus only on user skills and mastering basic applications and tools. Informatics and algorithmically formalistic topics and problem-solving skills, supporting creativity and creative thinking in pupils and building up modern broadly understood ICT technology literacy are not considered important or are postponed to secondary school. The structure and level of information technology skills of informatics teachers fundamentally influence the conception and orientation of ICT literacy education realized in these subjects. Teachers consider the thematic units or skills which they cannot master themselves and consider them demanding of a lower importance for the development of information technology literacy in primary and lower-secondary schools and do not commit themselves to them. ICT competencies of teachers of ICTorientated
subjects range from basic or pre-intermediate user skills to the level of professional IT experts. Some
respondents imply that they do not consider their ICT skills as sufficient for teaching ICT-orientated subjects in primary and lower-secondary schools. From this it follows that the realization of IT education in the Czech Republic is, compared to other fields of primary education, problematic to say the least. The structure and level of IT teachers’ ITC competencies fundamentally affects the concept and orientation of IT education realized in these subjects. Based on the comparison with the VIV06 results we may nevertheless observe a positive trend in a gradual shift of IT teachers’ ICT competencies towards higher levels. Vladimír Rambousek et al. / Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 141 ( 2014 ) 1263 – 1269 1269