Information and communication technologies in teaching history

The growing material and technical needs are ahead of the processes of social and psychological maturity of people, their ability to maintain a dialogue, communication culture, active self-knowledge and self-expression. In this regard, today the nature and functions of school education are changing: it must not only transfer knowledge, build skills, but also develop the ability to selfdetermination, prepare students for independent actions, teach to take responsibility for themselves and their actions.

It is clear that a new understanding of the essence of educational results significantly changes the orientation not only of the learning content, but also of the methods used, organizational forms and means of learning. This fully applies to the use of ICT. From the point of view of modern pedagogy, learning is a readiness for a certain activity, during which students should show the knowledge and skills acquired by them in the learning process.

All the above determines the main directions of improving ICT in the course of history. It is obvious that all of them at the same time and in all their aspects cannot be the subject of one work.

Traditional education is not able to respond promptly to changes in public life, in the field of science and culture. At present, in general education, preference is usually given to basic academic subjects, while the educational process and the motivation to study are carried out in elective classes and in groups. The integration of modern educational and information technologies is becoming an important condition for improving the process of teaching history. The implementation in Russia of the state programs "Unified Information Educational Environment", "Computerization of Rural and Urban Schools", etc., has intensified interest in the use by all participants of the pedagogical process of information and communication technologies in the educational process. First, as a means of increasing interest in learning, which can greatly affect the quality of education, expand the field of information resources, and therefore become the basis of modern education.

Psychologists note that the desire for a visual perception of information is characteristic of a modern person. Students had better perceive the visual range than the text. The use of information technology in the process of learning contributes to the partial solution of this problem. Electronic tutorials created based on multimedia have a strong impact on memory and imagination, facilitate the process of memorization, and make the lesson more interesting.

ICT capabilities for storing and transmitting information allow solving these tasks: to increase the information richness of the lesson, to go beyond the scope of school textbooks, to supplement and deepen their content.

Information and communication technologies broaden the possibilities of diagnosing the level of assimilation of historical information. A variety of test systems and shells allow you to individualize the process of assessing students knowledge, to develop students' ability to self-assess.

Would like to note that the methods and means of teaching would be erroneously elevated to the rank of an end in itself, it is primarily a tool for solving educational problems.

Now, the following forms of presenting the material and evaluating knowledge using a computer are mainly used at the lessons: presentation, information-training programs, and tests. In the presentation. The winning moments of the topic, spectacular experiments and transformations, collections of electronic geographical or historical maps, portraits, quotes. On the screen projecting definitions that the people write off in a notebook, whereas, without wasting time on repetition, have time to tell more. Making presentations on the course of history by the children themselves is one of the indicators of the effectiveness of my work. The children independently search for information, analyze it, select the necessary and create a presentation project on the chosen topic.