INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES USE AS A MEANS FOR OPTIMIZING SCHOOLCHILDREN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Abstract

The authors focus on the ways to effectively use the information and telecommunication technologies as a tool to optimize schoolchildren’s extracurricular activities. Based on the analysis of their own pedagogical experience, as well as the review of specialized research in this sphere, the authors give an essential characteristic to such activities carried out by modern Russian school students. The paper considers the composition of extracurricular activities and the classification according to various criteria. The article examines the place that such work occupies in the functioning structure of organizations that implement programs of basic general and secondary general education. The term “informatization process” is defined, taking into account the specifics of modern extracurricular activities for students. The influence of such on its course is demonstrated. The competencies of students are determined, whose development can be intensified by expanding the use of digital technologies in this activity.