FORMING YOUNG LEARNERS’ META-SUBJECT SKILLSBASED ON THE LINGUISTIC DISCIPLINES WITH ICT

• Main Author: Vira Andriievska
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Donbas State Pedagogical University 2017-04-01
• Series: Profesìonalìzm Pedagoga: Teoretičnì j Metodičnì Aspekti
• Subjects: ICT; primary school; information and communication technology; meta-subject skills; linguistic disciplines
• Online Access: http://pptma.dn.ua/files/2017/5-2/23.%20Andreevska%20s.%20234-245.pdf

The spread of ICT in primary education contributes to the development of new educational concepts, the introduction of innovative teaching methods. The purpose of the article is to reveal the pedagogical aspects of using ICT as a tool for developing meta-subject skills. The term “meta-subject skills” is defined as generic ability identifying the strategy for successful behaviour of an individual in the educational and social environment, performing actions according to the goals. The meta-subject skills cover the following ones: information and intellectual abilities, critique-regulatory, creative, communication, organizational abilities. The results show that the formation of the listed groups of abilities relates directly to the content of the young learners’ educational-cognitive activity, the process of its implementation and the subsequent use of the acquired results both in an academic and social environment. Therefore, in the process of formation meta-subject skills values acquire the creation conditions, when the child meets the age and individual needs; activity causes the student’s personal interest; a student is aware of himself/herself as a unique person who has the freedom of intellectual activity and creative independence; during activities the child has the right to make mistakes and their timely correction; the result of the work is significant not only within the educational process, but it also establishes a link with the life experience. One of the most productive ways of organizing these conditions is the ICT, which is viewed by the modern young generation as usual and perfectly natural phenomenon in life, and their implementation in educational practice is an organic extension. Originality of the skills is to establish the most productive conditions for the formation of students’ meta-subject skills that are carried out through work with textual information, to implement effectively, in particular on the lessons of Ukrainian, Russian and foreign languages. In conclusion, we emphasize that the dissemination and development of ICT create the objective conditions for the use of the powerful teaching potential of the latest technologies in the practice of primary education, on their basis for the development of innovative training techniques aimed at effective solution of the urgent tasks of student’s development and personal formation in all phases of his/her training.