Abstract
In recent years new media visual communications have become predominant in the built environment of today's children. This study sought to examine the pedagogical potential of visual communications and to find out how the traditional technology in children's training and education contradict the influence of new media technologies on the educational process. The opinions and attitudes of school teachers (N=150) towards the problem as well as documents and teaching materials were analyzed. The research demanded use of direct and indirect observations, questionnaires, self-analysis, and observation of the results of activity. A monitoring protocol, profiles, and materials for meaningful evaluation of products for teaching were developed. The obtained results showed that there is a narrowness of understanding of visual communications by teachers; uniformity in visual presentation of educational materials; lack of a system in multimedia application; and repetition in the creation and use of visual content. The results suggest that it is necessary to change not only the content and methods of training prospective teachers, but also their thinking.
Highlights
The Russian system of education is undergoing a very important and crucial period of development, characterized by a radical revision of stereotypes of the profession that exists in the minds of teachers
We studied the opinions of teachers about how they understand visual communication in general, effort was focused on the forms of visual communications used in classes, there were questions about methods and techniques of using visual communications, the existing problems in the use of visual communications
Modern children interact with too many visual images on a continual basis through mass media, so the teacher needs to form visual literacy of learners, to provide adequate perception of visual information and some critical attitudes toward it, to be able to create visual content and teach children with it, and to master the visual language
Summary
The Russian system of education is undergoing a very important and crucial period of development, characterized by a radical revision of stereotypes of the profession that exists in the minds of teachers. The very process of professional training of prospective teachers to use new media visual communications in education is of great importance. The target needs to be modified to relate to the content and technological components of the training process of the modern teacher, who needs to be prepared to create and use new media visual communications as a result of broadened understanding. Preparing future teachers with the ability to construct new media visual communications is an important challenge. This concept should be certainly included in the conceptual framework of professional pedagogy as a component of basic professional teacher competence. This study shows a potential of the Russian system of education for development including some guides on how to improve the content and methods of training prospective teachers
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