The Pedagogical Technique for Teachers to Ensure Information Security of the Learning Process in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected all areas of public life, including the education system. The introduction of restrictive measures (social self-isolation) to contain COVID-19 has led to changes in the work of educational organizations. All subjects of education: teachers, students, and their parents have to adapt technically and psychologically to new learning conditions, mastering various forms of distance interaction on the Internet. Special programs and applications allow you to exchange information and files. Each of them has its own advantages and disadvantages, their use is fraught with certain threats, as is the case with any other services on the Internet. The article actualizes the problem of the effectiveness of the teacher's pedagogical technique in the context of the massive use of distance educational technologies. This article analyzes the risk and threats factors of the modern information society, which rise the need to improve the qualifications of all subjects of the educational process to ensure the information security of the educational environment. The idea of the need for the design, development, and implementation of advanced training courses for teachers of educational organizations, dedicated to information security and the use of distance learning technologies in the system of additional education, is substantiated. Information and communication competence is considered as a category component of a teacher's pedagogical technique. The results of surveys of teachers, children, and their parents are presented, based on which the relevance and content of individual modules of advanced training courses for teachers as a condition for increasing the effectiveness of their pedagogical technique are defined and characterized.