Application of the 2d didactics principle to ecologyandinformation-related discipline teaching: a posteriori

The article is a description of the 2D didactical methodology as applied to HE settings. The 2D didacticsconcept, «Gzhel-1», was developed at the Gzhel state artistically-industrial institute with the view to developing more refined common cultural and professional competences of undergraduate students majoring in tourism. The methodology aims at developing individual capabilities of students, an integration of teacher-facilitated in-class, individual and joint learning ensuring a collective as well as individual content processing, constructing knowledge, a creation of new individually meaningful knowledge, and acquiring socially and professionally valuable competences [1]. The author supports the general view of the use of mobile devices (computers, smartphones, tablet PCs) as a currently important contributor to new educational technologies implementation. Mobile devices afford student access to education-tailored applications: «Gzhel-1» methodology, as applied in «Computer sciences» and «Information technologies in the service sphere» classes, assumes that students receive discipline-specific tasks, as well as tasks involving the regional ecological component. From the author''s perspective, the influence of students'' knowledge and skills acquired through the methodology serves to decrease social tension in the Gzhel zone, as the content of the Gzhel-1-supported disciplines includes research tools and a range of mechanisms of enhacing the quality of Gzhel''s eco-surroundings. The article provides a description of the major eco-surroundings challenges such as: drinking water quality, electromagnetic fields, air pollution, historical landscape alterations, the status of unique natural monuments, clay extraction, anthropogenic load, and radioecological situation.