Information and communication technologies

Information and communication technologies

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are technologies whose main objective is to secure the recording, processing, transmission, dissemination and disclosure of information. ICT implies methods and software and technological tools that can significantly reduce the complexity of the process of using information.

ICTs include computers, software and electronic communications. Sometimes, this range is expanded and management consulting technologies, and business design, administrative processes. They are divided into three groups:

1. Savings-technologies that are designed to store data.

2. Rationalizing-automatic search and order systems.

3. Creative-technologies by which a person is involved in active work with information

ICTs are designed to save a lot of time, labor and material resources.

Modern and developed information society today widely uses information and communication technologies in different spheres of life: in education, production, industry and other spheres of life. The need for information and communication technologies is due to several key factors:

1. The introduction of ICT in human activities accelerates the transfer of knowledge and social experience that has been passed down through the centuries from one person to another.

2. ICT significantly improves the quality of education and contributes to the rapid development of the necessary skills in a particular area of life.

3. ICT allows a person to adapt more quickly and more successfully to the ongoing social change.

4. ICT is an effective way to update existing systems in accordance with the requirements of modern society.

ICT provides a person with additional opportunities for the formation and development of his information competence.

Their implementation in life threatening emergencies the sphere of the human will lead to the systematization and integration of information flows within a social space, the formation of the subjective position of a person on the basis of the development of ICT skills to the successful design and validation of human achievement in the process of development of General and professional competencies.

Today, the processes of change in the education system are associated with the introduction of new educational technologies. Along with the traditional education system, a new form of distance learning is successfully developing. Distance learning, preserving educational technologies, methods, forms and means of traditional education, widely uses educational arrays of the Internet, information and communication technologies.

Equipping the educational system with information and communication technologies is one of the tasks of modernization of the Russian education system. The education system is integrated into the networked world, approaching the growing needs of the country's economic development. The processes of creation of the common economic space of European countries have strengthened the processes of globalization and modernization of the education system in Russia, as evidenced by the Bologna process, the development of which has gained a certain force in the Russian educational space.

The variability of the content, organizational forms, methods of learning, depending on the cognitive needs, interests and abilities of students is important at all stages of education. Therefore, to achieve the quality of education it is necessary to introduce new forms of education in primary, secondary and higher schools. In this regard, distance learning and its technologies are of particular relevance.

Information and communication technologies are technologies designed for the joint implementation of information and communication processes.

Information technology is a collection of processes and methods for the search, collection, storage, processing, presentation, dissemination of information and the ways in which such processes and methods are implemented.

Communication technologies are processes and methods of information transfer and how they are implemented.

The use of modern information and communication technologies allows to organize the optimal interaction between the student and the teacher in order to achieve the result of training and involves the simultaneous use of:

means clarity, problematic content,

means of programmed learning and control.