"Flipped Classroom" Method As One of the Ways to Prevent "Digital Dementia" Among Students Within the Framework of Distance Education
Considering the educational process as an integral part of the entire process of social development, and also taking into account the direct influence of social development trends on the sphere of education, the author raises the question of the inconsistency of the transformational processes taking place in the field of education. The article, in particular, examines the actual problem of the development of “digital dementia” among students as a result of a forced transition to distance education. The purposes of the work are to analyze the prerequisites for the emergence of “digital dementia” among students, to identify the main forms of its manifestation, and also to propose ways of prevention in the context of the digitalization of education. As one of the methods, the author proposes the “flipped classroom” technology and describes a possible variant of its application in English classes with students of a non-linguistic university