The document discusses the goals of general secondary education in Kazakhstan and the problem teachers face in developing critical thinking skills in students. It notes that most students today have "clip thinking" formed from consuming information online, which is characterized by a lack of logic and connection between ideas. While clip thinking is natural for modern students, traditional teaching methods do not contribute to critical thinking. Instead, the document suggests using educational technologies that better accommodate clip thinking, such as games, attention and thinking exercises, visual representations of concepts, and ICT tools for presenting material.
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In the State mandatory Standard of General Secondary Education Lecture 1
The document discusses the goals of general secondary education in Kazakhstan and the problem teachers face in developing critical thinking skills in students. It notes that most students today have "clip thinking" formed from consuming information online, which is characterized by a lack of logic and connection between ideas. While clip thinking is natural for modern students, traditional teaching methods do not contribute to critical thinking. Instead, the document suggests using educational technologies that better accommodate clip thinking, such as games, attention and thinking exercises, visual representations of concepts, and ICT tools for presenting material.
The document discusses the goals of general secondary education in Kazakhstan and the problem teachers face in developing critical thinking skills in students. It notes that most students today have "clip thinking" formed from consuming information online, which is characterized by a lack of logic and connection between ideas. While clip thinking is natural for modern students, traditional teaching methods do not contribute to critical thinking. Instead, the document suggests using educational technologies that better accommodate clip thinking, such as games, attention and thinking exercises, visual representations of concepts, and ICT tools for presenting material.
In the State mandatory Standard of General Secondary Education, approved
by the order of the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of
Kazakhstan dated October 31, 2018 No. 604, in Chapter 2 "Requirements for the content of education with a focus on learning outcomes" in paragraph 7 the following goals of general secondary education are given: "creating an educational space favorable for providing students with academic preparation for continuing education at a university and professional self-determination based on the development of a wide range of skills: 1) functional and creative application of knowledge; 2) critical thinking; 3) conducting research; 4) the use of information and communication technologies; 5) the use of various methods of communication; 6) the ability to work in a group and individually; 7) problem solving and decision-making" [1, p. 96]. In an effort to form and develop the above-mentioned skills of students, in particular the skills of critical thinking, functional and creative application of knowledge, teachers face a problem that in modern pedagogical psychology has been called "clip thinking". Most teachers have verbal-logical or conceptual thinking, which is formed in the process of reading books. Clip thinking is formed as a result of the perception of information through the Internet and gadgets and is characteristic of most students. By clip thinking is understood "... displaying a variety of information in the form of physical and virtual objects without taking into account their connectivity, characterized by illogicality, temporal and spatial desynchronization, high speed of fragments, lack of logic in the construction of a number of images" [2, p. 587]. Thus, clip thinking does not contribute to the development of critical thinking. At the same time, psychologists believe that "...the appearance of clip thinking is quite natural and that it is pointless to impose old teaching methods on modern young people. It would be much more productive to use those educational technologies that would most optimally take into account the features of clip thinking" [3, p. 273]: - use game technologies, since games, especially computer games, largely correspond to thinking and the way information is perceived. - include exercises in classes to train attention, memory, logical and divergent thinking. - "to present educational material to students in the form of graphs, flowcharts, mental maps, Ishikawa diagrams, in the form of a more ordered knowledge system that will allow developing skills for identifying the most important information, establishing cause-and-effect relationships, structuring data" [4; 23]; - to demonstrate the material, use ICT-means of presenting educational material.
Psychological-Pedagogical and Information Support of Improving The Management Process of General Secondary Schools in The Conditions of Modernization of Education