Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: The article proves role and significance of athletic gymnastics as a means of cognitive and emotional discharge under increasing information streams and information overload. It presents a technology consisting of a complex of exercises at different stages that provide total invigoration of organism and psychological well-being.

Annotation: Strategic competency and its role in formation of students’ readiness for foreign communicative activity is one of the most important conditions of effective foreign training of non-linguistic students for successful intercultural communication. It is important as to be able to practice effective interpersonal and intercultural communication, which is considered as the basic result of high education, a modern specialist must have a sum of linguistic, cross-cultural and etiquette knowledge as well as be able to choose definite linguistic clichés which are appropriate for the communicative situation. A graduate must also be able to react to unexpected turnings of the conversation, must know how to choose the adequate line of communicative behavior and how to avoid from some possible problems, which can obstruct effective interaction of partners in communication. However, to make such communicative activity possible, strategic competence must be considered as students’ and graduates’ functional feature. Thus, the purpose of this article is to analyze the pedagogical conditions considered as one of the components of a pedagogical framework. The main problems the author deals with are: to analyze and classify the phenomenon of pedagogical conditions; to emphasize and describe the pedagogical conditions which may have a positive impact on the process of formation of students’ strategic competence; to define the key features of pedagogical conditions which determine the process of formation of the strategic competence while studying foreign languages at non-linguistic university. The solution of the problems was carried out with the help of general scientific methods, such as analysis and synthesis as well as description and modeling. As a result of the research the author introduces an author’s model of the complex of pedagogical conditions which promote the formation of non-linguistic students’ strategic competence.

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.