TECHNOLOGY
The role of the ICT/LKT coordinator in schools today
By POWAR STEAM
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August 4, 2026
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3 min read
Ten years ago, the ICT coordinator was the teacher everyone turned to when the projector or the wifi broke down. They still fix the wifi from time to time, but their actual job has changed completely.
From ICT to LKT: a shift in philosophy, not just an acronym
The acronym ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) has given way to LKT (Learning and Knowledge Technologies). It's not a cosmetic change: it means technology stops being a goal in itself and becomes a means in service of pedagogy.
Today's coordinator isn't a maintenance technician. Their real duties usually include:
- School Digital Plan: designing the school's strategic roadmap for technology integration, not just buying standalone equipment.
- Teacher training: supporting staff on their Digital Teaching Competence, which is the part that takes the most time and gets the least visibility.
- Curating resources: filtering which platforms bring real pedagogical value and which are noise, avoiding what many staff rooms already call "shiny tool syndrome" — the new app everyone's excited about in September that nobody uses by March.
How to evaluate a new tool without chasing trends
Four questions that usually filter well before adopting any new hardware or software:
- Does it comply with GDPR and protect minors' data? Without this, there's no conversation to have.
- Does it require complex installation on the school network? The more infrastructure dependencies, the more likely it ends up unused.
- Does it align with an existing goal in the Digital Plan? If it doesn't fit the roadmap, it's a one-off purchase, not a strategy.
- How much training does staff need to use it comfortably? A learning curve of months kills real adoption, no matter how good the tool is.
The added challenge of AI and IoT
With LOMLOE requiring robotics and IoT to be worked into the curriculum, the LKT coordinator has to add one more criterion to the list: that the tool is secure and doesn't depend on complex installations on the school network. An ecosystem that combines hardware, block-based software and AI for teachers in a single package simplifies that evaluation considerably, precisely because it reduces the number of separate pieces to audit.
If you're figuring out how to justify buying a new tool to school leadership or with European funding, the article on NextGenerationEU funds for educational robotics covers the pedagogical report part.
We wrote this article with AI assistance to move faster, and reviewed it by hand before publishing: technical data and links are verified by our team. We're sharing this because it feels like the honest way to do it, not because a law requires it.