FORMING GEOGRAPHICAL COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS IN CONDITIONS OF DISTANCE TEACHING

Abstract

The article considers topical issues related to the process of forming student’s geographical competence, which they will receive by digital technologies through distance learning. Modern man lives in an information society, and for this he must have all the necessary tools, because a person who does not have information technology is deprived of one of the adaptive mechanisms of a dynamic society. Today the problem of education concerns not only the formation of subject competencies in schoolchildren, but also the development of human information culture through the formation of digital competence. The article describes the conducted pedagogical research, which revealed the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning of geography in modern conditions of long-term quarantine caused by covid-19. Among the specific socio-pedagogical problems, the central one of them is the contradiction between the growth rate of knowledge in society and the limited opportunities for their assimilation by the individual. The answer is the content of the article.