Principles of Modeling IT-Enabled Educational Environment, When Teaching the “Art” Subject in a General Secondary School
The humanitarian paradigm of general secondary education is to get its implementation in the course of teaching the «Art» subject to 8th- and 9thgrade students. Under the new Federal State Educational Standard, a school student has to search and select relevant data by himself, while a teacher’s main task is to foster students’ skills to properly select and analyze information, to help them develop critical reasoning and to assess the content on the basis of objective criteria. As a result, a number of problems emerge, concerning content to be selected to fit the IT-enabled educational environment. The paper provides some principles for modeling IT-enabled educational environment in the process of teaching course in Art, where the choice is based on findings in such scientific fields, as Media Education, Perceptual Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Video-ecology, Art technologies, Art Therapy, all are conducive to enhancing teenagers’ mental health.