Instrumental Digital Didactics in Modern Pedagogy

Abstract

nstrumental digital didactics (IDD) is a practical component of modern pedagogy that reflects the process of acquiring knowledge using a variety of digital means of obtaining, processing and interpreting empirical data. In the process of e-learning digitized content acts only as an activator of sensory perception of information, simplifying the understanding of learning objects. Instead, IDD is based on active usage of technological means in training (e-learning, classical, distance, blended and hybrid learning) which complement and accompany nature experiment. Both concepts are parts of a wider category of digital didactics and logically protract the traditional theory of education in current conditions. DID complements the scientific method of conducting research and engineering design with such opportunities as creation of interactive computer models, visualization of experimental data and their comparison with theory, predicting the course of the process due to changes of influence factors. The development of digital didactics determines changes in the structure of teacher activity, which can be interpreted as didactic engineering. The IDD-based teaching techniques developed at the STEM-Laboratory MANLab are an example of an innovative knowledge management system.