Information modeling technology in the conditions of students visual learning

Abstract

In the article, on the basis of a theoretical analysis of modern trends in the development of the learning practice in higher education, some ways of integrating the information modeling technology into the process of students visual learning are shown. The study was limited to mental modeling, including actions and operations, without which it is impossible a complex process of constructive and meaningful analysis of different information and its use in the building of models. It is shown that in terms of visual learning it is possible to use different modeling options - visual (visual analogues, diagrams); sign (ordered, topological, graph recording); mathematical (equivalent circuits, program replacements). It is noted that in the students activity in educational modeling, the emphasis should be shifted to such types of actions as: transformation of connections and systematization of the simulated structure’s elements in order to highlight the principle of its construction; fixing the properties of the structure in the subject, graphic or sign models; fixing methods of action in graphic or sign models (construction of schemes of action); modeling changes in the structure of the studied object, etc. Special attention in the article is paid to the correlation of the operational and constructive-informative ways of analyzing the objects studied by students