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MEDIA EDUCATION AS A FACTOR OF INCREASING THE QUALITY OF TEACHING SCHOOLCHILDREN
R.Kh. Dzhuraev, L.M. Karakhonova
The main condition for increasing the quality of education today is ensuring information literacy of learners. Globalization of the informational space, its accessibility, and intensive flow of new knowledge, facts, views and concepts have given rise to problems related to reasonable use of information coming via numerous communication channels from various sources. Society faces the problem when it becomes hard to control the content of information and its quality, ways and methods of dissemination. In these conditions it is necessary to identify new pedagogical approaches to the formation of independent thinking in learners and skills for orientating in the flow of diverse information, as well as approaches to building their skills of classification and ordering of the received information and its reasonable application. Pedagogical researches in this area were first conducted in the '70s of the last century. At the same time a new area of pedagogics was formed: media education.
Our research shows that formation of media culture in learners ensures efficient study of academic subjects in various areas and, in particular, in organization of the system of continuing education in biology courses at school. At the same time it is necessary to identify the optimal correlation between the content of the material being studied and methods of its presentation to learners, depending on the stage of school education, their age and development level. It is also necessary to study the necessity of certain material selected by learners from media resources. It is important to understand whether the learners have a sufficiently established culture of receiving information. What is the level of culture of Internet use? Does the teacher provide proper guidance to learners searching for the necessary materials? All this requires pedagogical analysis.
In our Republic of Uzbekistan much attention is paid to development of computer technologies. Under the Ministry of People’s Education there is an information resource center and the Center for Development of Multimedia General Education Programs. ZiyoNET information network provides e-learning for young learners, introduction of informational-communicational services in the education system, an increase of the teachers’ scientific-pedagogical potential, and exchange of information and work experience among teachers. The portal contains regulatory documents on education quality improvement, modern training technologies, scientific projects within the framework of academic subjects, electronic textbooks and multimedia resources for teachers and learners. In particular, there are electronic versions of textbooks and study guides in biology, and electronic textbook and samples of multimedia resources. The electronic textbooks prepared by the Republican Multimedia Center, multimedia study guides and electronic resources provide good support to teachers in using nontraditional approaches and technologies in classes. Creation of the portal of the Ministry of People’s Education and establishment of ZiyoNET information network contribute to fast dissemination of new information, pedagogical innovations and methodological studies among
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teachers-tutors, and the introduction of these innovations in school practice. Creation of a single informational-resource space helps to coordinate the activities of scientific, general education, and nonschool institutions and children’s and youth organizations within the framework of the national telecommunication system.
Beginning from the next academic year a special subject of “media education” is scheduled to be introduced in schools of the Republic. Media education is certain to increase the learners’ interest in assimilation of the content of the educational material. Learners form reality-image thinking, develop verbal-communicative skills. If students learn media culture, they will be able to use a complex of media means, identify the necessary media sources, and determine the purpose and way of applying them properly and rationally. One can state with confidence that media education will have a positive impact on every student and will intensify the educational process in general.
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Translated from Russian by Znanije Central Translations Bureau
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