The development of cognitive independence of students based on information technology

Abstract

In the article the authors consider the development of cognitive independence as the leading axiological motive for teaching students at the university. The authors believe that value attitude to the world allows the student to engage in cognitive activity with the whole variety of his or her inner strengths and capabilities. Based on this, the basis for the development of cognitive independence as a personality trait is to determine the personal meaning, needs and motives of the trainees, which is inextricably linked with the value orientations and axiological potential of the individual. The article also states that cognitive independence successfully develops in the process of studying the discipline “Computer studies” at the university, where technological support for information and educational interaction is carried out by means of Web technologies. The study of the authors of the article shows that the implementation of this idea is based on the creation in the university of an information and communication environment as one of the leading trends in the development of university education and is implemented through the Platonus system, where the teacher’s educational blog was created and forums were created both by the teacher and by themselves students. The authors note that the process of using new information technologies in the development of students’ cognitive independence depends directly on teachers, and therefore, in the future they pay attention to the need to form their information technology culture.