How to Integrate Technology in Teaching

Global changes in the global community lead to changes in the content and organization of education. It acquires a pronounced innovative focus, which is closely related to changes in the methodological and technological component of the training of modern specialists. The development of higher education today is associated with the potential of the newest teaching aids, and one of the most important conditions for improving the quality of vocational education is its informatization. Informatization of society initiates the formation of information and communication environment in which its main resource is a person who is able to acquire, preserve, work with information, apply it creatively in life and professional activities, and participate in the process of searching and creating new knowledge. The training of such a specialist is possible only with new means, focused on advancing his development as an individual, for whom knowledge becomes an important source of intellectual, personal and professional development.

The growing role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern education has led to the formation of the linguistic competence of students as an integral part of the future teacher’s linguistic and methodological competence. It is an integral characteristic of a person, expressed in the student’s ability and readiness to apply optimal methods and techniques of vocational pedagogical activity using information and communication technologies. Formation and development of the linguistic and methodological competence of modern teacher requirements, in the opinion of scientists, the development of a new pedagogical system based on the use of ICT, implying a new content of its elements and new conditions for educational activities. One of these conditions is the integration of information and communication (ICT) and educational technologies (ET).

Integration in education is the process of establishing links between the structural components of the content within a certain educational system in order to form a holistic view of the world, focused on the development and self-development of the child's personality.

The integration of subjects in the modern school is one of the areas of an active search for new pedagogical solutions, development of the creative potential of teaching staff with the goal of effective and reasonable impact on students. Integration helps to overcome the fragmentation and mosaic of students' knowledge, ensures that they master holistic knowledge, a set of universal human values. With the rapid growth of the volume of information, the possibility of its perception and understanding decreases sharply. The way out is seen in the synthesis of different subjects, the development of integrated courses, the interconnection of all school subjects.

There are three levels of integration of the content of educational material:

• Intradisciplinary - integration of concepts, knowledge, skills, etc. inside individual items;
• Interdisciplinary - the synthesis of facts, concepts, principles, etc. two or more disciplines;
• Trans-nominal - synthesis of the components of the main and additional educational content.

The main ideas of integrative learning are:

• The personal orientation of training (human is the main value of the educational process);
• The formation of generalized objective structures and methods of activity (the assimilation of knowledge based on the awareness of patterns);
• A priority of semantic motives in learning (inducing, internal, external and organizing);
• Systematic learning (awareness of links within a scientific theory);
• The problem of learning;
• Reflection of activity;

The goal of integrative education: the formation of a holistic vision of the world. Inside the integrative education we distinguish individual technologies:

1. Integration;
2. Design technologies;
3. Educational technologies in the global information community;
4. Teaching major systematic Internet-based training courses.

An integrated approach requires a teacher of a high level of pedagogical skills, the universality of his education. The negative aspects include an increase in the density of a lesson, a lack of detail, in some cases, a large amount of time during preparation for a lesson.

The advantage of integration in education is the creation of prerequisites for the formation of not a narrowly informed specialist, but a creative person who takes a holistic view of the world and is able to actively act in the social and professional sphere, crafting new scientific and other Pro-Papers. The education system implements and places ever-greater demands on the person, and in accordance with this, both the quality of education and the teacher’s task is to strive forever-greater improvement in the quality of teaching the lesson, the quality of knowledge and communication with other subjects through integrated learning.

The integration of modern information, communication, and pedagogical technologies helps to create the necessary conditions for optimizing the learning, making it more efficient and productive. At the same time, it should be emphasized that no matter what properties the ICT tools do not possess, the didactic tasks and peculiarities of students' cognitive activity, determined by the specific goals of education, are always primary. Information and communication technologies are a means of realizing these goals and objectives and create the necessary information-subject environment for this.

The integration of ICT and ET has a pronounced interactive character. Pedagogical technologies (project method, learning in collaboration, case technology, etc.) and ICT tools imply the ability to interact or be in a conversation, dialogue with someone.

Practice shows that modern education technologies based on the use of information technologies provide a solution to new educational tasks, including the tasks of lingual-methodical preparation of a future teacher since their main advantage is the ability to integrate all other educational technologies into a single system.