Problems and prospects introduction computer technologies in educational process primary school

Abstract

. The article deals with the ways of forming junior pupils’ informational culture, problems of children’s training and
education in the information society, preservation of moral values and humanistic component of informational technology
implementation in the school and family cooperation. It also focuses on the problem of providing junior pupils’ information security.
Psychological phenomena associated with the obtaining of new information technologies have been presented.
It has been defined that junior pupils’ informational culture is a system of knowledge and skills used for searching required
information from the diversity of informational resources; the selection, evaluation, saving of the found information and critical thinking
based on the moral and cultural values; the integration, structuring and creation of new information. Formation of junior pupils’
informational culture occurs at «Steps to computer science» lessons.
Modern technologies are very important for the organization of school educational process. The experience of Internet resource
aiming to support distance learning for students of physical and mathematical school № 17 in Vinnytsya (disted.edu.vn.ua) has been
described.
Empirical research confirms the fact that children of primary school are active Internet and social networks users (33.3% of them
have already registered) and master new forms of virtual communication, therefore expose themselves to dangers of the information
environment.
Thus, teachers and parents should join their efforts to develop a system of means and tools for children acquiring knowledge,
developing abilities and skills that make up the security of their life in the information society.