Modern Information and Communication Technologies in the Advanced Education of Children

Abstract

Scientific and technical progress in the modern world is increasing its pace and is actively being introduced into educational process. Accordingly, the impact of information and communication technologies on the younger generation cannot be avoided. The level of educational needs of modern students in the system of additional education of children is qualitatively new, so there is a need to create informational and educational environment as an effective means to meet educational needs of students in modern conditions.The purpose of the work is to develop and determine the effectiveness of the method of using modern information technologies in educational process of additional education for children. Therefore, the article discusses the use of information and communication technologies in education, theoretical foundations of the method of using modern information technologies in additional education of children. The article assesses the effectiveness of information and communication technologies implementation into the system of additional education for children. The authors conducted an experiment in which 26 children from the third year of study in the Navigation Circle of the city of Nizhny Novgorod took part. In order to investigate classes’ effectiveness at the Center providing "Navigation" course from the inside, the authors carried out a rapid survey. The authors found that students tend to positively perceive the general nature of navigation lessons at the Center. The Center developed a method for conducting practical work using multimedia simulators, after introduction of which the survey among students was repeated. The authors obtained the following results: high levels of interest and student assessment of these classes is obvious for all selected items. The students began to take a more positive view of the lessons at the Center by navigation, responded to their novelty and non-traditional character, which effectively expressed itself in increasing learning motivation.The developed method of using information and communication technologies in the system of additional education of children can be proposed for implementation in the activity of a navigator teacher, taking into account the advanced methodological recommendations.