Online search for Additional Information as an Element of Educational Activity of Modern Schoolchildren: How to Improve Its Effectiveness?

The paper presents the results of the experimental study aimed at identifying the ways of organizing online educational activity by secondary school students that contribute to the most effective performance of educational tasks related to search for additional educational information on the Internet. The study involved 44 schoolchildren of 5th-9th grades. We analyzed such characteristics of organizing online search in the process of performing an educational task as the use of a synopsis or rejection of it, the method of preparing a synopsis (handwritten / electronic, structured / unstructured), as well as the method of reproducing the information (reading a synopsis / talking with a synopsis / talking without a synopsis). The amount of delayed reproduction of information, as well as the way of reproduction (factual / synthetic) were considered as indicators of the effectiveness of online search. The results suggest that an effective online search for educational information is provided by such organizational factors as structured handwritten synopsis and oral presentation (with or without a synopsis) without reading. These results are discussed in the context of the the need to create conditions for improving the “user culture” of schoolchildren as subjects of educational activity on the Internet.

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