Peculiarities of using multimedia presentations in primary school

Abstract

The article describes a multimedia presentation as a set of sequential, logically constructed slides (pages) with text, pictures, tables, diagrams, photos, video and audio fragments, animation and 3D graphics. It is proved that the use of multimedia presentations contributes to the formation of elementary students' ability to navigate information flows; teaching practical methods of working with information; applying teaching methods in which students become subjects of their own learning activities; activating students' educational and cognitive activities; improving the aesthetic level of lessons and training sessions by means of works of music, fine arts, animation, cinema, etc. The technical tools for creating presentations include the selection of appropriate online servers and electronic resources, compliance with design requirements (fonts and colours) and rules for presenting information (formulation of keywords and phrases, structuring digital data in diagrams, theoretical material in schemes, with support from graphs and video clips, animation effects). Scientific research on the use of multimedia presentations determines the requirements of typical educational programmes for primary schools. These normative documents define the content of training aimed at developing students' information and communication competence, as well as the mandatory result of its mastering - the ability to create information products by combining text, images, sound to present ideas and results of activities. Areas for further research include identifying the effectiveness of introducing other information and computer technologies into the educational process, such as electronic textbooks and curricula, cloud and artificial intelligence technologies.

Key words: information and computer technologies; multimedia presentation; elementary students.