The aim is to study the environmental friendliness of long-term work on a computer based on the results of assessing the level of psycho-physiological functions of students with different volumes of training loads using computer technologies in the learning process. Methods: computer analysis of psychomotor reactions, self-assessment and situational anxiety, measurement of heart rate (HR) and blood pressure before and after the local load. 86 volunteer students aged 18-23 years old with a different volume of computer technology in the curriculum were surveyed. The results showed that adaptation to training loads in students with a large amount of computer technology is expressed in a statistically significant increase in indicators such as the speed of simple sensomotor reactions, the rate of complex sensomotor reactions in girls, and a decrease in attention concentration, the rate of selection and discrimination reactions in all subjects. Anxiety rates were higher in students with less computer work. The response of the heart rate to the local load in girls of both groups was more pronounced than in boys. Conclusion. A theoretical statement is formulated about the uneven changes in adaptation processes to study loads in students with a large amount of computer technology, expressed in stimulating certain neurodynamic functions and compensatory reduction of others. The stress of adaptation in girls is more pronounced than in boys. These studies indicate the environmentally unfavorable nature of high computer loads on the body, which manifests itself in functional stress. It is necessary to introduce correctional and recreational activities in the educational process with a large amount of computer technology.

Introduction. Visual impairment is the most common disturbances during the child development in preschool and primary school age. Such children need care with the health-improving technology based on scientific knowledge about the characteristics of their psychophysiological functions. The aim of the study is to identify development-related changes in blood circulation and central nervous system functions in 4-10 year healthy children and cases with visual impairments. Materials and methods. A total of 380 children were examined by electrocardiography, electroencephalography, registration of neurodynamic processes, analysis of the tactile function, and self-assessment of anxiety. Results. In subjects with visual impairment, an increase in age-related heterochronism in the development of psychophysiological functions was revealed. The accuracy indices of time intervals and tactile sensitivity of the skin of the fingers were higher, and the indices of physical development, kinematometry, and mobility of nervous processes in many age groups are lower than in healthy ones. Such adaptive changes were accompanied by an increase in functional stress. So, for example, in preschool children from 4 to 6 years, when analyzing the structure of the heart rhythm, an increase in the values of the stress index was noted (from 148.08 ± 3.32 to 220.08 ± 3.62 c.u.; p < 0.05). Conclusion. Judging by the high values of activity indices of the central mechanisms of heart rhythm regulation, anxiety, and the nature of bioelectric changes on the EEG, the “price” of age-related adaptation in children with sensory impairments rises. It contributes to the development of disadaptation. The conclusion is made about the need to develop effective means of psychophysical correction of children with visual impairments, taking into account the nature of age-related changes.

The article discusses the conceptual directions of the development of education: all-age and continuous. Two interrelated basic tendencies of all-age education have been identified. The authors considered the specificity of educational concepts in different countries of the world. Depending on the level of embeddedness of research competence in the activity, a morphological five-aspect classification is proposed. The following aspects of the division were identified as independent: mental orientation of the individual to the implementation of research activities; own (individual) motivational apparatus that stimulates a person to carry out research activities; the level of requirements and the presence of high-quality psychological support of the close external environment for the formation of acquired properties (signs) in a person for the implementation of expedient research activities; the level of requirements and the presence of high-quality psychological support of the distant external environment for the formation of acquired properties (signs) in a person for the implementation of expedient research activities; the presence of a methodological and informational apparatus in an educational institution for identifying congenital and acquired personality inclinations to research activities. The system of research competence for a specific educational institution, including various aspects of its functioning, is presented by the authors in a code dimension (one of the basic requirements of the digital economy). A sequence of development of a code portrait is proposed, which allows the entire set of educational institutions to be divided according to the level of the state of the system of research competence, which gives the management apparatus of the university a powerful mechanism for the formation of acquired properties (attributes) in a person to carry out expedient research activities (creating the necessary volume and focus of research competence of students and trainees). Based on the proposed methodology, a comparison was made between two educational systems: domestic (Russian) and foreign (American).