Abstract:

The development of information society requires modern education to correlate with dynamic changes in social environment, huge amount of incoming information and rapid development of information technology. Personality’s information culture enhancement is of particular importance in an information-oriented society. Information culture is a constituting part of culture connected with information aspect of human life.

Nowadays the term information culture is becoming diverse: its structure is growing, new content components appear and personal information culture requirements are changing due to professional and personal demands. As a result there comes a necessity to highlight the constituent parts of personality’s information culture that will give an opportunity to unite the interests of a particular group of people (for example, schoolchildren). But as schoolchildren information culture is rather diverse (one is keen on playing computer games, the other one likes programming, the third one is using social networks, etc.) there comes a necessity to determine basic information culture of schoolchildren.

The system of supplementary education for children possesses a great pedagogical potential in forming basic information culture of schoolchildren. It is a flexible socio-pedagogical system that is highly adaptable and gives a diversity of educational services providing opportunities for personal, professional and creative development.

The authors of the article developed a didactic support aimed at forming schoolchildren’s basic information culture. This didactic support consists of a modular training programme of continuous computer science and information technology teaching (SCIT), a study guide for propaedeutic and basic stages of teaсhing, a set of tests, activities and projects and didactic materials of different complexity.
The results of experiment showed that the main indicators of schoolchildren’s basic information culture formation at the experimental group studying according to the modular training programme of continuous SCIT teaching were higher than that of a control group using traditional methodology.

The research data show that the developed didactic support provides effective and holistic process of schoolchildren’s basic information culture formation on condition that the principle of continuity is realized both in the course content and in collaboration of supplementary education institutions and secondary schools. The usage of educational potential, different forms and methodology, flexibility of supplementary education institutions and the absence of demanding standards allow educators to enhance the level of basic information culture of schoolchildren.

Keywords:

Information culture of personality, basic information culture of schoolchildren, computer science, information technology.