The current stage of social development is shown by the unprecedented increase in scientific sphere, high level of the progress in computer technologies, the evolution of innovational processes in all aspects of social production. The rate of making inventions and absorption of innovations in all facets of the modern society, the level of their implementation into our life and consciousness turned innovations into a natural process, they have become an important element of social progress that meets requirements in the educational field.
The word “innovation” (from Latin “innove”) appeared in the middle of the 17 century. It means implementing a new thing into any sphere and generating a chain of changes in it.
This term has recently changed its first meaning. It was interpreted as a scientific invention reflected in a certain technology or a product. Therefore, the main benefit of introduction of innovations was an actual profit. In the social sphere, in the sphere of education this figure of merit is not the main compared with the economics and material production.
The innovation in the educational field can be considered as:
1) Stable changing that inputs some new elements(inventions) into education, that makes some characteristics of separate parts and the whole system better
2) Assimilation process of some new technologies (new methods, programs)
3) The search for the perfect methods and programs, their introduction into the educational process and its upheaval.
Nowadays the innovation in the educational field is on the beginning stage and empirical research.
Modern school becomes an innovational institute in a part of informational technology, where students can get not only some important knowledge, but the spirit of the modern informational society and where they learn to use it in a proper way. Without using informative-communicatory technology an educational institution should not claim on the innovational status in education. An educational institution can be considered as innovational only in case the educational process includes didactic, methodical and technical innovations. Due to this, it achieves some real graduation of rate and capacity of griped knowledge, it also raises the quality of learning that allows students to find their own special abilities.
The innovational route of education changes the main goal of the school. Disclosing abilities of every student, raising an orderly and patriotic man, a personality that is ready for life in a highly technological, competitive world comes into the first place. For reaching these goals, the educational process reorients to individual educational tracks. This would allow teachers not only to select the most talented children, but to create some special circumstances for a huge number of outpourings of children’s talents.
It is a transition from the education as a system of introducing knowledge to the education as a work with some issues with the purpose of outputting some certain decisions; from learning some main subjects to multidiscipline researching of some hard life situations; from collaboration of a teacher and a pupil to dynamic participation of students in it.
Interactive teaching becomes the main element of the pedagogical innovation that is based on conversational forms of cooperation made by participants of the educational process, for example, learning mixed with talking that helps students to form and develop some communicational skills. This exact cooperation is a condition for developing students’ art abilities.
The interactive learning could not ever be imagined without modern informative-communicatory technologies. The most impressive invention for students is an interactive whiteboard that is slowly replacing a school blackboard. Its interactive possibilities make the process of getting knowledge even better memorized. A lesson with using interactive technologies made on the base of optimal pedagogical cooperation has a list of advantages: it is held at a good pace; stages of the lesson has a logical link; different types of educational activity are mixed up; it makes the attitude of students more serious; different forms and types of activities make the whole class engrossed; that allows each student to improve their knowledge; pupils get materials of the lesson according to their individual psychological markers; they get some new communication skills; the atmosphere of cooperation and co-creation at the lessons is addictive.
One of the methods of interactive learning is a group form of work that increases cognitive motivation of students and decreases a level of fear to be incompetent in solving some problems. By working in a group educability, effectiveness of acquisition and actualization of knowledge are increasing.
Nowadays school has all possibilities for developing “ project thinking” by a special type of pupils’ activity, so-called “project work”. Project work usually has a target that is personally meaningful for each student and it is stated as an issue. By solving this issue, the author of this project decides his strategy, arranges his time, uses a lot of sources, including informational. The involvement of students into project activity is happening gradually. The experience of project activity at school shows that the interest in this significantly independent work appears in primary school. Students of secondary school have enough knowledge, experience in doing research work, skills of using a computer for searching information and arranging their written work. They also have necessary will power to overcome difficulties and not to lose interest in a continuous duty. They are able to keep the main and most important goal in their mind for the whole time of work.
Using of interactive technologies helps to develop a child’s personality, it creates a special pedagogical sphere, intensifies the educational process, that increases the effectiveness of work and the quality of education. The main sense of innovations is increasing the quality of education.
The innovational process is a continuous process that does not have the exact ending. It is not about an exponentially-increasing sum of knowledge that was collected by the whole humanity. The peculiarity of the innovational process is its cyclical pattern that can be expressed in the structure of stages that the innovation passes: creation, hasty growth in contestation with opponents, readiness, absorption, expansion, saturation, routinization, crisis, the bottom [3, p. 79]
Only when innovations are understood as a continuous cyclic process, the quality of education considerably increases. This means that education itself is not as valuable as the ability to create new knowledge based on earlier experience and the ability to use it properly according to the theoretical base that was given at school
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