Characteristics of Educational Activities and their Structure
The article dwells on the issue concerned with the possibility and expediency of the formation of educational activity by virtue of modelling of the object of consideration, actions and operations for the study of the relevant objects. Proceeding from the analysis of aspects in regard to the issue under study, the author proves that due to educational actions schoolchildren reproduce and imbibe the samples of common ways to a solution of goals and general devices of the determination of the conditions of their application. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the actions of modelling occupy a special place among educational ones. However, currently, the function of the former is still poorly studied. Meanwhile, the study of these functions under the angle of modelling in reference to educational tasks and usage of a computer in educational process is considered to be as an extremely actual issue.