FORMING PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPIL’S EDUCATIONAL AND COGNITIVE ACTIVITY WHILE WORKING WITH DIGITAL INFORMATION

Abstract

The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that educational and cognitive activities of pupils are formed in the primary school years. A pupil learns the system of competencies gradually, which influences the development of his cognitive mental processes. Taking into consideration the fact that the field of education is in the stage of digitalization, pupils of primary school work with digital information during the educational process. The work with digital data itself is a means of forming educational and cognitive activities of junior pupils. The purpose of the article is to specify the essence of the concepts “educational and cognitive activity” and “digital information”; investigate the features of the formation of educational and cognitive activities of pupils of primary school while working with digital information.
 In the article educational-cognitive activity is substantiated as activity which is directed on mastering a system of competencies. Therefore development of its cognitive mental processes is carried out. Being a complex category, its components are the educational and cognitive activities of a learner. One of the means of forming educational and cognitive activities of pupils of primary school are work with digital information. It is specified that digital information is information, the creation, storage, transmission and processing of which is carried out by means of information and communication technologies. In the context of digitalization of primary education, the specifics of the gradual acquisition of knowledge, skills, abilities and experience of cognition by the pupils of primary school while working with digital information are outlined: perception, comprehension and understanding, generalization, consolidation and application. The characteristic features of cognitive activity of primary school pupils (sensation, perception, memory, thinking, attention, imagination and speech) were analyzed through the prism of their work with digital information, which are caused by the specific form of educational material and the age characteristics of pupils of primary school. It is determined that motivation is the basis for the formation of educational and cognitive activities of pupils of primary school while working with digital materials; the motives of educational and cognitive activities that relate to the interaction of primary school pupils with digital information are characterized: the desire to learn something new, the desire to learn new ways of action, the desire to work with information and digital media.