DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS OF STUDENTS THROUGH INFORMATION MEANS

Abstract

The global process of information society, as well as changes taking place in Ukraine, require significant changes in many areas of state activity. This is especially true of education reform. Today, national programs provide for the development of education based on new progressive concepts, introduction of the latest pedagogical technologies and scientific achievements in the educational process, creation of a new system of information support of education, Ukraine’s entry into the transcontinental computer information system. Information technologies are qualitatively changing the key resources of development: this is no longer a space with fixed production, but primarily mobile finance and intelligence. They have a direct impact on the formation of personal growth, professional content and self-organization, emotional and psychological maturity and consciousness, and so on. One of the main factors in ensuring the stability of socio-economic development of the country is the culture of security, the formation and development of which is an urgent problem today. Comprehensive and systematic development of safety culture will significantly increase the preparedness of the population, the level of environmental, labor and patriotic education, reduce human losses, material damage from emergencies. Ecological education can be most successfully carried out only continuously and in accordance with the sociopsychological periods of personality development: kindergarten – school – college – institutions of higher education. The creation of such a system of environmental education should be enshrined as the basis of state environmental policy as a constitutional norm with the use of information technology. The creation of such a system of environmental education should be enshrined as the basis of state environmental policy as a constitutional norm. Graduates of higher education institutions, namely the future of our people, after studying basic environmental education must have a high level of environmental culture, which, in turn, is part of the general culture of man, and professionally approach environmental issues from the standpoint of their profession. It is known that with the help of environmental education is formed the collective intelligence of society, which can predict (predict) human activities and processes occurring in nature, and in some way to manage the elimination of crisis phenomena. It is through environmental education that another system of human values is being formed, which places great emphasis on intangible wealth and solidarity, and great responsibility of humanity for the ecological state of the native state; provides a higher standard of living as a result of sustainable development, through the introduction of information technology in this system. To improve the quality of life, we need better knowledge, which must be implemented at the international level.