Educational technologies in the information age

Abstract

The traditional task of school is to prepare students for the future. This, in contrast to Comenius times, appears to us as constant, dynamic changes in the social environment. Private life, education, and work are filled with information technology aimed at replacing us with automated procedures and devices. IT is successfully used as a tool for learning about educational practice, as a tool for improving it, and as a tool for building knowledge about the world around us. In this area, we have a whole range of devices, platforms, programs, applications - and finally AI-supported robots. However, the path from knowledge to action leads through the axiological-volitional realm, and this can only be shaped in contact with another person. Education in the information age will be dominated by upbringing that mainly affects the emotional-volitional field. The teacher's task will be to teach the student to select the right information, understand it, and use it rationally, in accordance with the hierarchy of his or her values. The generation of “digital natives” cannot imagine - does not know – life outside “the infosphere”. The enormous educational potential of information technologies, their ability to stimulate curiosity about the world, creativity without wise supervision of parents and guardians may remain completely unused, and tools intended to serve the development of children may greatly harm this development.