Development of Digital Skills and Media Education System: From the Organization of Environmental Education of Preschool Children to the ICT Competence of Teachers.

Autor: Demidov, Alexey, Syrina, Tatyana, Tretyakov, Andrey
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Zdroj: Media Education / Mediaobrazovanie; 2020, Vol. 60 Issue 1, p11-23, 13p
Abstrakt: The era of globalization and media presents new opportunities for a comprehensive study of various aspects of social life, including a large field of social sciences as education and pedagogical sciences. The mentioned factors and a number of descrepancies served as the starting point for studying the problem of developing a system of digital skills and media education within the organization of environmental education of preschool children and the formation of ICT competence of teachers. Modernity witnesses harmful technogenic influence of human activity on the natural world, which leads to a global crisis in the relationship between man and nature. At present, the Russian Federation is experiencing a new digital impulse, which entails research into the impact of information and media technologies on the sociocultural and educational activities of all participants of educational relations. Thus, the purpose of the article lies in theoretical justification and experimental verification of new methodology as an integrated system of environmental education of preschool children and the formation of ICT competence of the pedagogical corps of a preschool organization. To achieve this goal, the authors used a set of methods: theoretical (analysis of scientific literature on the research problem; summative methods (studying and generalizing the experience of specialists working in educational organizations); experimental methods (observation, interviewing, pedagogical experiment, etc.). In addition, the article compares and discusses different domestic and foreign researchers' results on environmental education of preschool children and the ICT competence of teachers. The results of a study conducted on the basis of 10 preschool organizations in the Moscow region are presented and commented in detail. The research directions of the development of the problem of environmental education and ICT competence of teachers in the new digital media reality are presented. The results of the study allow us to find a solution to the pedagogical tasks of the innovative organization of environmental education of preschool children, taking into account the effective formation of the ICT competence of teachers; and also open up new vectors for the research in the context of systemic changes in education and digitalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index