Information and Communication Technologies as a Phenomenon and Its Impact on Goals and Quality of Education

Abstract

One of the most important factors for improving the quality of education and the successful achievement of modern educational results is the use of innovative forms and means of education in the educational process. The work notes that fundamentally new educational results, relevant to the needs of the modern education system, can be achieved only by new educational activities and support of new types of educational activities of subjects of education. Interaction of subjects of education in information and educational environment is a feature of contemporary training prosses. Being a social and cultural phenomenon, Internet-, Web-, Smart- technologies as a result of the development of information and communication technology, are becoming increasingly significant in modern information society changes, have a huge impact on the formation and development of the information and educational space. In this regard, the article deals with qualitative changes in education in the information society under the influence of modern information and communication technologies, media technologies, SMART technologies. The phenomenon of media culture (personal media culture of a subject of education) is relatively new for the analysis of cultural aspects of the information society in the information digital era and the range of discussion issues goes well beyond this paper. However, it should be emphasized that the influence of media culture leads to the formation of a particular type of mass consciousness in society - mass media consciousness. In this perspective, the issues of the formation of modern media culture, the awareness of which will help to preserve humanistic ideals in the age of digital technology, are outlined. All these circumstances encouraged the authors to express their opinion in this paper and discuss issues related to the expansion of educational opportunities and the didactic potential of information technologies and the degree of their impact on goals and quality of education, educational activities of subjects of education.