Justification of hygienic regulations for the use of an interactive panel in a school lesson

Abstract

The digital transformation of modern education leads to the emergence of various electronic learning tools, the arsenal of which is constantly being updated. This actualizes the need to assess the potential health risks of students arising from the use of new digital tools. The article presents the results of a study of the influence of the use of an interactive panel (IP) at school on the functional state of the body (FSB) of 85 students of the 3rd and 5th grades in order to justify the safe duration for their health of the use of this electronic learning tool in the classroom. To achieve this goal, a complex of hygienic, physiological, sociological, statistical research methods was used. The evaluation of the indicators of mental performance (MP), which is an integral indicator of the functional state of the body of children, indicators of the critical frequency of the fusion of light flashes (CFLF), the psycho-emotional state of students. The time of using the IP in the lesson was tracked by the method of time-lapse observations of educational activities. A medical and sociological study was carried out related to the assessment of the well-being of 130 schoolchildren in the conditions of the use of IP in the classroom. The data obtained made it possible to establish the time of using the interactive panel in the lesson, over which the majority of schoolchildren had unfavorable indicators of mental and visual performance, an uncomfortable emotional state. It is shown that the unregulated use of IP caused the appearance of complaints in students about the deterioration of well-being, including eye pain, headache, blurring of the image, a feeling of flashing before the eyes, etc. The implementation of reasonable hygienic regulations for the use of an interactive panel during the lesson will contribute to the prevention of severe fatigue in the learning process and the occurrence of school-related diseases.