Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: The article views the opportunities of using gadgets as didactic means. It estimates their pedagogical and methodological potential in educational space. It review key works dedicated to the role of mobile devices in human life and education. The article present the result of student poll on the use of gadgets. It concludes that their daily effect can be transferred onto education. It suggests the premises of a new paradigm in didactics with the key question of effective using pedagogical potential of gadgets.

Annotation: The article deals with topical issues and questions on the subject of informational safety and forming educational environment in a secondary school. Particularities of teacher’s participation in shaping educational environment with informational security for pupils of different age are viewed.

Annotation: The article examines the influence of the image of the junior schoolchildren on conflict. Purpose: to examine the characteristics of the influence of the image of self on conflict in the younger school age; The study of the influence of self-esteem on the conflicts of younger schoolchildren. The methodological basis of the study was LS Vygotsky’s ideas, LI Bozhovich, P.Ya. Galperin on the formation of the personality of the junior schoolboy, his Image of J. Hypothesis: self-esteem in younger school age influences the schoolchild’s conflict. It is shown that at this age, all components of the image of the self can influence the conflictual personality.

Annotation: Post-Soviet social transformations touched upon all the sides of social life, including education both secondary and higher. Current educational reality principally differs from that of 30 years ago. One of the crucial reformation elements in education is considerable decrease of knowledge component and competence incline as well both at school and in university. Educational technologies also underwent considerable changes, which manifested in rating system, electronic testing, distant-learning implemented in the education process. The article attempts to estimate the efficiency of such changes and their influence on real forming students’ knowledge and competences. The key conclusion is the statement that the better is, probably, harmful for the good and one step forward means usually two following steps back. Meanwhile neglecting knowledge component inevitably leads to considerable decrease in quality of education level. The author suggests practical steps for increasing the level of knowledge forming and its checking by means of a quiz.

Annotation: The article views peculiarities of multifunctional computer environment “Psychometric Expert” for organizing medical psychologist’s automatized workstation in civil aviation. It reveals the specificity of working with piloting staff as well as the technology of working in this electronic medium. The article gives conclusion about the value of a united database of examinees for optimizing medical psychologist’s work in this sphere.