Social Informatics: Natural Tools for Students' Information Training in The Conditions of Embodied and Mental Approaches Being Employed

Abstract

The relevance of the problem under study is due to the society's requirements for the quality information training of a personality which is oriented to forming the solid fundamental knowledge as well as to developing the cognitive capacities that are needed for solving mental tasks. With regard to this, the paper is aimed at finding out the opportunities of applying the natural tools in information training of students from the standpoints of embodied and mental approaches. The main idea of these is integrated studying of an object, beginning with learning it in an "embodied" way and finishing with abstract models formed in the human memory. The leading approach to the research is the integrated one taking into account the psychological and pedagogical, didactic and methodological constituents. It allows identifying the psychological and pedagogical conditions of application of natural tools as well as the possible ways of their use. The authors describe models of natural tools of computer science training in individual sections of the school course as the main results. The materials of the paper are of practical value in methods of teaching computer science to students at various stages of education.

A Student’s E-Learning Self-Control Method Based On A Topological Knowledge Tree

“…Pak and Asaulenko (2018) noted that the structural-logical mental scheme is convenient for software implementation of an automated control system for students' self-monitoring in the process of forming their skills to solve computational problems (Figure 01). The importance of the process of formation and development of human mental schemes in learning implementation is described in the works of Barkhatova et al (2017). Learning should first be based on sensory perception, and then move on to an abstract description: from action to concept.…”