Reflection Influence on the Thought Process of Students with Distance Learning

Abstract

The issues of reflection and its relevance as a tool in the student education system for rethinking their activities and changing the direction of the students’ thought process, prerequisites and advantages of using reflection in the education system and its influence on the students’ thought process are given. The final result (product) of education (knowledge, skills, abilities, personal qualities) is created jointly by the teacher and the student, since the basis for the successful learning of the material is cooperation between them and a conclusion made by the student independently or with the teacher’s help. In the course of the learning process, there increases the information flow for educational purposes (the World Wide Web, databases and electronic libraries, forums, conferences, computer models, indicators and simulators, network applications that facilitate organization of «virtual» collaboration, etc.). A description of the «portfolio» technology is given, that plays an important role in organizing the educational process and establishing connections between the teacher and the student and is the most important assessment tool. In the course of studying, reflection was considered as a phenomenon in the student’s mind that arose after rethinking his activities and changing the direction of the thought process.