Distance school: the way to information society.

Iurii Bogachkov

UIITE, NTUU "KPI", Ukraine, e-mail: bogun@ukrpack.net

Development of information society makes demands for people’s readiness to live and work in it. The purpose of this paper is to analyse competences that an information society citizen needs to have. A set of competences which can be effectively obtained by the distance school students is also analysed. It is shown that the proportion of competences required for activities in information society is permanently increasing relative to the general education competences. Just these competences are basic for student learning activities in distance schools. Distance learning activities have to rest upon the respective, well organized resources of data and knowledge. Taking into consideration onrush of information society technologies, development of appropriate specialized resources – catalogues is expedient. The catalogues have to serve for gathering descriptions of existing information technologies, their facilities, competences needed for their application both in distance learning and in realization of information society functions.

In this paper a structure of a catalogue for gathering and search information about the information society technologies is described. The following data about technology are supposed to be recorded: title, summary, authors, technological environment, software, didactic potential, compatibility with other technologies, analogues, qualifying requirements to user for its application, scope of use in society and in training.