Features of teaching younger schoolchildren in the modern digital society
The article discusses the psychological and pedagogical features of education and cognitive features of modern schoolchildren of generation Z and the features of the parents of modern schoolchildren. The author conducted a study of younger schoolchildren using a survey in School No. 687 in Moscow. The survey involved 100 fourth-grade students and 62 teachers of primary, secondary and high schools (age ranged from 41 to 62 years, all had higher education and work experience at school of 20 years). The study of the characteristics of modern students was carried out on the basis of behavior, upbringing, personal characteristics, cognitive sphere, emotional sphere, values, health; parents - in their attitude to the school and the teacher, in relation to the education of children. The author defines the criteria for the features of teaching modern children: the type of education, the content of education, teaching methods, assessment. The results obtained were compared with studies conducted by L.A. Yasyukova twenty years ago on the following grounds: reading skills, independent thinking, Amthauer's intelligence structure test. In modern children, there is a difficulty in detailing, isolating in each individual subject the most essential features and properties that characterize the subject. The cognitive features of modern children are highlighted: enlargement of the unit of perception of the analyzed information. The prospects of studying not only modern schoolchildren, but also in general, considering the methodology of digital learning and didactic approaches to optimizing the learning process in education are outlined.