Integration of basic and additional information technology education based on the training of students in digital education centers for kids

Abstract

Today, the problem of integrating basic and additional information technology education is relevant. Integration is of particular importance for school informatics, which is significantly influenced by digitalization of modern society. Some areas of digitalization can be highlighted in particular: the expansion of the network of additional education institutions equipped with modern digital equipment for teaching children how to work with it; providing conditions for mastering new digital professions; developing basic digital competencies, etc. Modern school informatics has a number of shortcomings, which determines the need to reform content of the discipline and forms of content presentation. Such a reform involves a targeted integration of basic and additional information technology education, which allows to significantly enrich its educational and developmental potential. At the same time, the following conditions must be taken into account: providing access to modern equipment and technologies; continuity and consistency in the construction of programs and methods of basic and additional education; implementation of convergent solutions within the content and methodological support of school disciplines; symbiosis of technologies and programs of these disciplines.One of the ways for integrating basic and additional school education is the development of methodological support for programs of basic and additional education for “IT cube” kid’s digital education centers, “Point of Growth” education centers, “Quantorium” kid’s technoparks on the basis of educational organizations. In accordance with the project ideology, the educational areas (“Python programming”, “Mobile development”, “VR/AR development”, “Robot programming”, “System administration”, “Cyber hygiene and Big Data”, “Fundamentals of programming in Java”, “Fundamentals of algorithmics and logic”, etc.) were focused on supporting the most relevant and wanted competencies of kids in IT sphere, providing the possibility of integrated solutions both within the framework of the actual information technology education, and outside this framework.