INFLUENCE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES ON THE COGNITIVE PROCESSES OF SCHOOLCHILDREN

Abstract: the article reveals effects of computer technologies on the cognitive processes of schoolchildren. Among the influencing factors are the hypertextuality of modern culture (non-linearity, inconsistency of ideas), a lot of information (duplication in various sources), electronic communications (e-mail, SMS, social networks, messengers, teleconferences) and language transformations (“computer” language, simplicity of speech structures, abbreviations of words). Both positive and negative effects of computer technologies on mental processes that are important for school students’ learning are revealed. Negative factors include the impact of technology on perception, attention, memory (memory processes), thinking, due to multitasking activity, the lack of need to remember information, connect creative thinking and possible violations of sanitary norms and rules due to high loads. The positive aspects are also emphasized – the development of imaginative thinking through visualization, the ability to hold attention, and use various types of perception. A special role is given to visibility, which, according to K.D. Ushinsky, is important not in educational materials, but as an image of the studied objects, processes and phenomena created in training. We consider multimedia tools that allow organizing visibility. The classification of computer technologies according to G.K. Selevko is given: basic (key technological approach), penetrating (during studying individual topics and sections), monotechnology (integrated management of the educational process by computer). The material can be used as a starting point for modernizing teaching methods for academic subjects, taking into account the using of computer technologies.

Keywords: computer technologies, cognitive processes, perception, memory, attention, thinking, hypertextuality of culture, electronic communications, visibility

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