Visualization of information in a digital educational environment

Abstract

The development of a digital society as well as the digital transformation of education has a significant impact on the modern educational process. An increase in the volume of educational material involuntarily leads the student to the need to continuously process information flows both educational and extracurricular. Incoming data must be analyzed, comprehended, divided into useful and redundant, which in turn leads to the need to use innovative tools, digital content visualization technologies that would contribute to its perception, analysis, memorization, interpretation and reproduction. Infographics can become one of these tools, as well as improve the information and computer literacy of students as well as teachers in a digital educational environment. The skills of working with infographics in a digital educational environment can be useful for students in their future professional life and for social adaptation. The paper reveals the relationship between the development of digital literacy of students and the use of infographics and its elements for this purpose, which would allow students to master subject knowledge, skills and abilities as well as meta-subject competencies of the digital society. Infographics is a way of graphical representation of complex information, the purpose of which is to concisely, accurately and reliably represent large amounts of data without losing information. As a result of the analysis of the possibilities of using infographics as a way to visualize digital educational content and its elements in the classroom, for the development of digital literacy of students, it has been found that infographics can be used, for example, to explain the operation of various devices, when teaching programming, to visually illustrate facts or events, to create problematic situations, as reference materials in solving problems.