POSSIBILITIES OF DEVELOPING STUDENTS' CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS BASED ON THE USE OF INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION

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INTRODUCTION the development of the mental sphere of the A leading direction in modern national educational student and his critical thinking has become an modernization is the competency approach. The urgent problem. competency approach in education is not limited to increasing the volume of knowledge in various The development of critical thinking in students disciplines, but also involves creating conditions has become a popular direction of World for students to acquire independent knowledge, Education. Over the next quarter of a century, the develop the skills to apply them in unfamiliar concept of “critical thinking” was included in the situations. In general, the competency approach in content of the educational programs of schools of education can be defined not through “knowing most Western countries as one of the factors of what”, but through the concept of “knowing how”. personality maturation, but the concept in It is an extremely difficult matter to motivate the question has not been given a single universally current reader to engage in cognitive activities, recognized definition to this day. In Particular, R. find a way to the goal in the field of information and In Ennis 'view, critical thinking refers to” rational communication. This is due to the fact that reflexive thinking aimed at an issue solution of students often have serious difficulties in the what to do (how to do) and what to believe" [1]. perception of educational material in all subjects. The author believes that a critically thinking The real reason for this is the insufficient person seeks to respect the opinion of his development of thinking, first of all, critical interlocutor, listen and hear others, be open in (analytical) thinking, that is, thinking. Therefore, communication, understand the teranity of other https://www.theamericanjournals.com/index.php/tajssei 88 THE USA JOURNALS THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION INNOVATIONS (ISSN- 2689-100X) VOLUME 06 ISSUE09 people's feelings, level of knowledge and understand 21st century skills, that is, the reasoning, and avoid critical reproach. experience they have, to synthesize new ones from existing components, to analyze information, D. Halpern considers critical thinking to be “the use evidence and controversial feedback, to be able to of knowledge-related skills and strategies that understand the interaction between integrity and increase the likelihood of obtaining the desired its components, to correctly formulate questions result” [2], E. Glazer comments that” critical for obtaining information, to be able to evaluate thinking is a comparison of positive (good) and alternative, based on the use of the science of logic, negative (bad) proof – grounds " [3]. it allows the formation of skills such as being able T. Noel-Tsigulskaya reflects on critical thinking:” to conduct feedback and establish causal this does not mean finding criticism, flaws, or connections. negative aspects in the closet " [4]. According to The technology for the development of critical him, critical thinking means not only revealing thinking is a set of various methods aimed at mistakes and doubts, but also creating new ideas, intriguing students (arousing research, creative looking for an explanation of something activity in it), creating conditions for generalizing incomprehensible. Therefore, it should also be information to it, as well as developing skills of understood that the goal of critical thinking is not critical thinking, self – analysis and reflection just to be under criticism, but to find the right (reflection). The thinking activity of students and solution, otherwise it is a criticism. the ability to work with information requires the D. In cluster's view, critical thinking is independent formation of logical skills such as analysis, thinking; information is the starting point of classification, inference, promotion of hypotheses, critical thinking, not the final one; critical thinking proof, and so on. begins by identifying a problem that needs to be K. Meredith, J. Steele and C. According to Temple's put and solved; critical thinking seeks convincing view, “critical reasoning implies curiosity and the evidence; critical thinking is social thinking [5]. use of research techniques: to put issues before Critical thinking or reasoning is the ability to oneself and to carry out a systematic search for analyze information in terms of a logical and answers” (6). In their view, critical thinking is not personal - psychological approach to its limited to facts, but rather an attempt to application in practice. This is actually a skill to put understand the causes and consequences of these new questions in between, develop different facts. Cause-and-effect relationships are arguments-foundations, and make well-thought- determined through systematic thinking. out different decisions. To develop critical Systematic thinking is a competency that manifests thinking, it will be