scholarly journals Computational thinking as a modern educational trend

Author(s):  
Tetiana Tykhonova ◽  
Hanna Koshkina

In the article, the authors consider the essence of the concept of "computational thinking" as an actual contemporary trend in foreign education. The relevance, theoretical significance of the notion of computational thinking, is substantiated, various approaches to the definition of its essence are described. The operational definition of computational thinking for 12-year secondary education is presented. Author's definition of computational thinking is given as the intellectual ability of a person to solve complex problems by constructing systems and processes that can be implemented using computers. The main components of computational thinking are described: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithms. The authors emphasize that computational thinking is inherent primarily to programmers, but with the development of computers and their use in all areas of human life, this kind of thinking becomes a universal ability, necessary for anyone to succeed in a digital society. Computational thinking is closely linked to procedural, algorithmic, structural and critical thinking, and contains these types of thinking. The necessity of forming computational thinking of pupils during learning various school subjects is substantiated. The experience of improving the skills of teachers in the formation and development of computational thinking of pupils is described. It is concluded that the introduction of methods and means of forming computational thinking in the educational process requires a large-scale continuous professional training of teachers and new pedagogical approaches.

Author(s):  
M. M. Кабанець ◽  
В. М. Алфімов

The article focuses on the importance of information culture as an integral part of professional culture of engineers, which affects the quality and safety of engineering solutions. The main two approaches to the definition of "information culture" are determined, which include an information approach when the information culture is reduced to the concept of computer or information literacy and a culturological approach when the concept "information culture" is seen as a way of human life in the information society. Development of the information culture acts as a process of harmonization of the inner world of man in the acquisition of socially significant information. The main components of information culture of engineers are highlighted, including literacy and competence in understanding the nature of information processes and relationships, humanistically oriented information value-semantic sphere, developed information reflection, creativity in information behaviour and socio-information activity. Based on a broad understanding of information culture as a qualitative characteristic of the life of a specialist in terms of receiving, transmitting, storing and using information, where universal moral values are the main priority, basic methodological approaches to forming information culture of future engineers are proposed, namely: system, personal, activity, integrative, culturological, axiological and reflexive approaches. The process of developing future engineers’ information culture in the process of professional training in higher educational institutions will be effective providing that it is based on the substantiated methodological approaches.


Author(s):  
Liliya Rebukha

Approaches to the definition of the fundamentalization of professional education, which are directed at improving traditional education,are actualized in the article. The direction of the fundamentalization of education, in which gained knowledge has a great professional potential (involvement of innovative social experience, leading achievements of humanity and its intellectual potential into the educational process, focus on the values of the future profession), is determined. The main components of the system of fundamentalization of the professional training of future social workers on the basis of the integration of innovative technologies are investigated, the theories and methodologies of education, the paradigms of education, goals, content, methods, forms and means of education, educational technologies and organizational systems are described. The content of educational disciplines is revealed in accordance with personally oriented and professionally oriented training strategies that are directed at self-development of the individual and taking into account the dynamism of the professional work of the social worker and the ever-increasing changes in social work. The criteria for selecting the content of university education are outlined and their division into internal, connected with the science, and external, as universal and socially recognized, professional values is made. It is concluded that the effectiveness of the system of fundamentalization of education is determined by the unification of fundamentalization, professionalization and integration of innovative technologies into a single, holistic process, which serve as the basis for the fundamentalization of the professional training of future specialists in the socio-humanitarian sphere.


2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Zh. KolumbayevaSh. ◽  

Globalization, informatization, digitalization, led to large-scale changes that have problematized the modern process of upbringing. The modern practice of upbringing in Kazakhstan is aimed at solving the problem of forming an intellectual nation. The key figure in the upbringing process is the teacher. The modernization of public consciousness taking place in Kazakhstan, the renewal of both the content of education and the system of upbringing require understanding not only the content, but also the methodology of the professional training of teachers for the upbringing of children, for the organization of the upbringing system in educational organizations. We believe that the analysis of traditional and clarification of modern methodological foundations of professional training of future teachers of Kazakhstan for upbringing work will give us the opportunity to develop a strategy for training future teachers in the conditions of spiritual renewal of Kazakhstan's society. The article reveals the experience of Abai KazNPU. As a result of the conducted research, we came to the conclusion that the process of training a teacher in Kazakhstan, who has a high degree of ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity, requires strengthening the upbringing and socializing components of the educational process of the university. The strategy of professional training of a modern teacher should be a polyparadigmatic concept with the leading role of ideas of personality-oriented, competence paradigm.


Author(s):  
Iryna Lapshyna ◽  
Lyudmila Lyubchak ◽  
Nataliia Franchuk ◽  
Alla Vasylyuk ◽  
Nadiia Komarivska

The implementation of active forms and methods of group interaction in the educational process is recognized as a perspective means of developing future teachers’ communication. From the authors’ standpoint, it is necessary to re-evaluate the developmental potential of such specific methods as discussion methods (group discussion, analysis and commentary of situations); play methods (role-, director-, and counterplays) and play psychotherapy, trainings of interpersonal sensitivity, personal growth, techniques of non-verbal interaction and others. The topicality of such re-evaluation is caused not only by the reform processes in the education system of Ukraine, but also by the modern challenge to the whole system of world education - the need for large-scale implementation of distance forms of the educational process organization in connection with the pandemic situation. The survey of future primary school teachers conducted by the authors, indicates a low readiness of modern teachers to use active teaching methods for training schoolchildren of different age groups, to organize speech interaction with students based on emotional involvement in work, critical re-evaluating of self-position, frank and reasoned expression of thoughts and feelings. In this regard, the issues of the development of diamonological competence of the higher education institutions students acquire additional relevance in the pedagogical discussion. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (47) ◽  
pp. 293-300
Author(s):  
Larisa M. Zakharova ◽  
Nataliya Y. Maydankina ◽  
Tatiana A. Chibisova ◽  
Ekaterina S. Subbotina ◽  
Victoria S. Zakharova

The modern sociocultural situation of the development of society involves taking into account all aspects of human life in the educational process. Are our students - future preschool teachers - ready to build their activities taking into account socio-cultural aspects. The authors consider the characteristic of readiness, highlighting motivational and value-based component (awareness of the importance of their process, readiness for continuous improvement and professional development, highlighting the values of professional activity), activity-technological component (knowledge of the ways of interaction with the subjects of the pedagogical process, design of the educational and educational process, the use of modern teaching tools (IT), information and knowledge component (knowledge of the specifics of preschool childhood, modern trends in the development of society and education, learning technologies). The study shows the insufficient level of development of the 2nd and the 3rd components of the readiness of future teachers. The proposed methods of professional training of future teachers of preschool education are associated with the use of business games, conducting master classes, studying the technological component of the educational process.


Author(s):  
Тетяна Пащенко ◽  
Наталія Ваніна

The article is devoted to the formation method of the education content of future associate specialists in the construction and engineering fields in terms of competency that is indicated in the standard. The goals of the professional training of a future associate specialist are defined in accordance with the outcome of the education process and are displayed in the education content. The general purpose of education, particularly professional is defined by the society, it is declared in educational standards and displayed in educational programs, curriculum, syllabuses of training programs, etc. The formation of professional competence of a technical college graduate requires optimization of educational process taking into consideration initial vocational, educational, and personal potential, implementation of the most acceptable (scientifically based and didactically feasible) choice of education methods and technologies, as well as compliance with didactic laws and principles. The article analyzes the requirements for designing of training content, the main components of the formation of the content of education, the principles of designing the content of competence-oriented training of future junior specialists. The implementation basis of the competence approach is the usage of pedagogical techniques or methods that guarantees the achievement of the planned educational results (consequently, these planned results should be clearly and specifically reflected in the standards of education). Such technologies should envisage learning with action: students perform not artificial, but real practical tasks (projects), gain experience, learn both from teacher, and each other, solve puzzling production and technological cases.


Author(s):  
Daria Bybyk

The article defines the algorithm for building the educational environment of the «Social Leadership School – Student» as a factor in the formation of social leadership in the professional training of future social workers, which has a clear logic: presentation of the mission and visit, which provides for informing about the School, its activities, current information for students – future social workers; announcements of news and events, which include coverage of events regarding social leadership, characterization of directions and organizational forms of social leadership, a photo and audio report, an archive of events that took place at the School on these topics. Six consecutive stages of the algorithm for building the educational environment are defined in accordance with the tasks and characterized: the first stage is the definition of the goal of the activity of the Social Leadership School – Student in the context of strategic priorities for taking into account objective world trends in the development of education for social work; the second stage – highlighting the leading idea of the development of the school; the third stage – the definition of values, key directions and scientific approaches to the organization of the School's activities; The fourth stage is the development of directions for achieving the goal and strategic directions for the development of the School; The fifth step is to determine the scale of the transformation; the sixth stage – formation of readiness of all participants in the educational process of the School to form social leadership; the sixth stage – achievement and evaluation of the result – qualitative changes in the system of formation of social leadership of students in the educational process of the «School of Social Leadership – Student». The model of the educational environment of the School of Social Leadership – Student and the structure of its activities are determined in accordance with the normative support for the functioning of the School, which will allow planning the organization and conduct of training programs and activities of the School, in particular in the areas of formation of social leadership; activities on acquisition of leadership skills, development of partnerships. Through the development of the content of selective educational disciplines «Fundamentals of Leadership», «Social Leadership» in the process of training social workers, the formation of the readiness of future social workers for proactive functioning in the informal environment of the «School of Social Leadership – Student» is ensured.


1991 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 296-299
Author(s):  
A. COMPAGNER

In large-scale Monte Carlo simulations, reliable random numbers will soon be needed at bit rates of 1 GHz or more. Therefore, existing recipes for the generation of random numbers have to be improved. This is not easy, due to the many unrelated and laborious statistical tests needed to compensate for the lack of an accepted and operational definition of randomness. When however the notion of randomness as a complete absence of all correlations is made precise, a practical approach results.


Author(s):  
O. MIKHEIENKO ◽  
T. MIKHEIENKO

The article deals with the role of methodology in the process of professional training of specialists. An overview of pedagogical and methodological literature on this problem has been carried out, which shows that the methodology plays a decisive role as it is the basis for the integrity, systematic, and the effectiveness of educational and professional activities. The effectiveness of the professional training of a specialist depends to a large extent on the formation of its methodological culture, which defines both general outlooks and specific principles, conditions, methods, forms, means, and peculiarities of solving theoretical and practical problems during the study process and in the process of further professional activities. The essence and content characteristics of holistic, synergistic, competency and activity approaches are revealed. The expediency of their application as a methodological basis for ensuring the effectiveness of the educational process and the success of practical and applied activities of human health specialists has been substantiated. The holistic approach regards man as an integrated system, and therefore, the effectiveness of health-improving influence can provide a complex of remedies for the physical, mental, spiritual and social spheres of human life. Synergetics provides an opportunity to find optimal and effective means, methods, forms, ways of making efforts for improvement, development, self-improvement. Competency approach involves rethinking the purpose, content, quality criteria and learning outcomes, their focus on the development of creative initiative, autonomy, competitiveness and mobility. Activity approach considers activity as the main source of personality formation and the factor of its development, through which the person becomes the subject of knowledge and transformation of reality.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-43
Author(s):  
Liliia Mykolaivna Potapiuk ◽  

Increasing the level of the prospective specialists' professional responsibility is an important aspect of preparing young people for life and work in a highly-competitive and dynamic society. Professional training of the competitive professionals is inextricably interwoven with the development of their abilities, worldview, cognitive independence, moral and ethical culture, national consciousness, ability to perform tasks at a high professional level, solve life and personal problems. With reference to the scientific sources, the article describes varied approaches to the definition of the concept of responsibility. In the focus of the study are the most essential issues of the notion of future specialist's professional responsibility. The author argues that professional responsibility reflects the objectively necessary relationships in a team, which are characterized by a conscious need to fulfill professional requirements, moral and professional duties, social norms, to be responsible for the professional actions as to the colleagues, team, and society. The article highlights the most important areas of vocational education improvement, focusing on the most favorable conditions for the professional responsibility formation, describes the set of factors, requirements, and influences aimed at facilitating the process. Pedagogical conditions involve the factors and professional interests, which contribute to the future specialist's self-sufficiency and self-criticism development, provide for the disclosure of the personality potential, influence the formation of professionally significant qualities of future specialists, improve the quality of their training and inspire the specialist for further development, transformation, and integration into the European and world community. The study has revealed that the mechanisms of professional responsibility formation work more efficiently owing to the implementation of properly selected pedagogical approaches in the process of training. The main components that determine the level of professional responsibility are identified. The key findings of the study argue that the quality of the formation process of the professional responsibility of the prospective specialist depends greatly on the gradual and manageable training, filling the training content with integrative combination of personal, pedagogical and professional components, development of the organizational principles based on the combination of theory and practice, involving students in various types of activity.


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