INFORMATION COMPETENCES OF SCHOOL CHILDREN AND PARENTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

The paper is of the theoretical and empirical nature. It illustrates the issue of information competences of school children during the Covid-19 pandemic. The objective of this paper is to make an attempt in describing the issue and in indicating the pedagogical practice directive for parents, teachers, tutors and specialists who work with children and the youth. The purpose of the pilot study titled: Information competences of school children from grades IV-VIII and their parents, carried out in May 2020, was the verification of the research procedure correctness in terms of the respondents selection (parents and children); the verification of the scope of accepted variable indicators (specified information competences; child/children school grade; as well as respondents (parents) details like: age, gender, employment, education). The pilot study implementation allowed improving the assumptions regarding the main study. In particular, the changes concerned the need to show the clear difference between information competences and IT competences. That is why the Big6 model was applied in the main study. The pilot study also: justified the extension of the research survey in order to focus on issues related to the importance of information competences in the lifelong learning process; justified the need to determine the respondents knowledge on preferred sensory learning methods; as well as justified the significance of the pre/postfigurative culture.