Key educational competences and infomedia literacy competences: theoretical aspect

Abstract

The article provides an updated list and names of key competencies that formed the basis of the key competencies of the «New Ukrainian School» and are taken into account in the State standard of basic secondary education and comprehensive skills and abilities for all competencies. It is noted that different levels of education play a leading role in the acquisition and development of basic competencies: preschool, school, professional, retraining, self-education, lifelong education. Modern competitive conditions on the labor market require the education system to focus on the formation of a specialist not so much as knowledge, but professional competences that will allow solving various tasks of today. Accordingly, the basis of systemic transformations of the educational process should be a clear understanding of the set of competencies, which are developed within each branch and on the basis of which its meaningful characteristics should be formed. In competence education, the formation of personal values, aspirations and readiness to realize one’s potential are important, in particular, the ability to work with information - to search, select, analyze, and use it. Since the key educational competencies are both general and universal in nature, the competencies of infomedia literacy do not always clearly fit into them or clearly correlate with them. However, key educational competencies can be considered a superstructure based on subject competencies, and in higher education, on professional competencies. And this provides ample opportunities for the implementation of infomedia literacy and the formation of an appropriate complex of knowledge, skills, abilities.