Abstract

The aim of the research is to study the opportunities of using the electronic social networks for developing future teachers’ cognitive, creative, communicative and collaborative skills. The research was conducted at Donbas State Pedagogical University. 90 future primary school teachers and 40 university lecturers are involved in the research work that includes the use of social networks for developing cognitive, creative, communicative, and collaborative skills while studying the university courses. The research results are presented as the comparative analysis of the indicators of future teachers’ cognitive, creative, communicative, and collaborative skills which were obtained at the initial (2014) and final (2018) stages of the experimental programme. The author analyses the research results according to five blocks: students’ preference and motivation to use electronic social networking sites; the use of the electronic social networking sites for developing the cognitive skills; the use of the electronic social networking sites for developing creative skills; the use of the electronic social networking sites for developing collaborative skills; the use of the electronic social networking sites for developing communicative skills. The author claims that future teachers’ digital competence improves while taking part in individual and group learning; in personal learning; while using social networks for the purpose of informing about the university events, for conducting extracurricular activities, non-formal and informal education, project activities etc. It was proved that the conditions, which contribute to the successful implementation of social networking sites in the educational process of higher educational institution, include an active, conscious and cultural use of electronic social networking sites by students, as well as university lecturers’ understanding and concern about implementing these educational digital resources in their professional activities.

Highlights

  • Over the past few years, the rapid development of digital technologies causes an irreversible transition from traditional methods of personal growth to innovative ones, using modern digital tools, in particular electronic social networking sites that are characterised by the strong potential to bring people together

  • Based on the foundations of digital humanistic pedagogy, we developed the principles of implementing electronic social networking sites in teacher training:

  • The opportunities of using the electronic social networking sites are revealed for establishing different forms of educational process: individual, group, personal, project, blended and distance learning; for establishing curricular and extra-curricular activities, formal, non-formal and informal education

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Introduction

Over the past few years, the rapid development of digital technologies causes an irreversible transition from traditional methods of personal growth to innovative ones, using modern digital tools, in particular electronic social networking sites that are characterised by the strong potential to bring people together. Its emergence updates the opportunities to implement electronic social networking sites in the system of future teachers’ professional training. Training analytics of implementing electronic social networking sites as tools for organising and realising educational activities in higher educational institutions enables monitoring the changes in motivation, preferences, and levels of development of future teachers’ cognitive, creative, communicative and collaborative skills. The founders of the digital humanistic pedagogy in Ukraine are outstanding scientists in the sphere of information technologies in education – Bykov, Leshchenko and Tymchuk (2017). The issue of forming and developing educators’ professional competence by the use of the digital educational technologies and resources is highlighted in the works by Ukrainian scientists Bykov, Leshchenko and Tymchuk (2017), Sokoliuk (2016), Yatsyshyn (2014) and others. Australian scientists Ridout and Campbell (2018) made the research, aimed at implementing electronic social networking sites for supporting children and teenagers’

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