Abstract:

In the article, the educational tools based on social network option for student’s IT education is analyzed. The concepts of student’s IT education, pedagogical use of social network are described. Pedagogical use of social network within the university’s informational-educational environment gives professors and lecturers a high variety of tools for organizing indirect interaction classrooms. The problem described in the article is the lack of using modern communication methods in the educational process. Analysis of scientific works gives grounds to assume that modern education can be encapsulated for using IT as a tool for training informational technologies. Moreover, this problem needs to be solved during a university’s training to prepare a professional with such skills, so the employer should not retrain him. Besides, in the training course, a lecturer lacks the option to reconstruct his activities to train one IT competence separately. He can only adopt some of his classes to use different methods or/and forms of training. He can also choose different tools to change some student’s self-study work, generate a bunch of problems for student’s non-standard thinking development. During the experiment, he also can modify the course according to results. Some of the methods become proficient, others fail. During this article, there will be some recommendations of the social network using.

Sholom-Aleichem Priamursky State University, Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Saint-Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University and Tashkent University of Information Technologies named after Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi served as an experimental base. There were students and members of the faculties of Pedagogics and Psychology, Sociocultural Activity and Service, Mathematics, Information Technologies, and Technics, Philology, History, and Journalism.

The experiment was held at disciplines of using information technologies in student’s future professional activity. The purpose of the experiment is to analyze the effect of a social network based training forms for the student’s IT competence. Following interactive forms were used: conversation, project work, case-method, dispute, debate, gaming, project’s public presentations, brainstorming. Two groups were selected for research: experimental (417 students) and control (398 students). Control group held an ordinary schedule. Quantitative indicators of the dynamics testify the effectiveness of the experimental work: control group shows 11 percent progress while the experimental have 27 percent.

Keywords:

Social network communities, IT education, IT competence, information technologies.