CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH IN TEACHING INFORMATION AND SEARCH ACTIVITIES TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

The ability to search for information effectively is one of the key skills of a person in the modern society. A general trend in the development of educational systems is their reorientation to the formation of self-education skills, training strategies for working with information. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the possibility of using the potential of the constructivist approach in teaching information and search activities to high school students. In the context of the constructivist approach, the concepts of “information search activity” are clarified, the pedagogical conditions for the formation of the ability to carry out information search are developed and justified. The authors describe the structure of readiness for self-organization of information search activity, it includes motivational, procedural and reflexive components, as well as evaluation and diagnostic tools for studying the level of the formation of high school students' readiness for self-organization of information search. The article describes a model developed by the authors on the basis of the ideas of pedagogical constructivism and metacognitive learning for the formation of high school students ' readiness for self-organization of information and search activities, which is based on the integration into the educational process of a set of special exercises and optional tasks, testing and reflection of their own information and search activities. Within the framework of the experiment, methods of problem-based, project-based, and reflexive learning, as well as teaching metacognitive strategies for interacting with information, were implemented into the subjects of the social and arts cycle. The conducted experimental research indicates the possibility of forming the readiness of high school students to self-organize information and search activities on the basis of teaching metacognitive strategies in working with information (search, selection, comprehension, development, transformation) in the process of studying the disciplines of the social and arts cycle in the comprehensive school.