INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AS A MEANS OF INCREASING STUDENTS’ COGNITIVE ACTIVITY

Abstract

The article considers didactic possibilities of information technology as a means of increasing cognitive activity of students. The humanization of education presupposes a value-based attitude towards various personal manifestations of students. Knowledge does not act as a goal, but as a way, a means of personal development. Modern information technologies provide the richest opportunities for the development of students’ personality. The article concludes that the use of information technology in the process of teaching disciplines of the natural science cycle (in particular, the discipline “Concepts of modern natural science”) it opens up a number of advantages: saturation of classes with additional information (due to the visual demonstration of the information that the lecturer assumes as the internal visibility of his students); the ability to easily display complex objects and processes (physical, chemical, biological, etc.); the realization of the lecturer’s pedagogical individuality (even with the standard content of the topic, it can be modified and made as attractive as possible due to multimedia visibility); the multiple use of their own presentations (they can be added every year, taking as a basis the presentations of previous years of teaching).