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From the first personal computers towards digital intelligent tools: 40 years of the compulsory informatics course at our public school

https://doi.org/10.32517/0234-0453-2025-40-1-5-13

Abstract

The article examines the 40-year history of the school’ digital renewal of the Russian education, which began with the introduction of the compulsory course “Fundamentals of Informatics and Computer Technology” in 1985. Computerization, early and mature informatization, and the digital transformation of schools are discussed as separate stages of this process. It is assumed that the experience of solving problems that arose in the early stages of digital renewal is useful for developing responses to the challenges that the modern stage of digital transformation of education brings with it. The transition to a personalized and effective organization of education, ensuring the evidence-based effectiveness of the training of each student, is considered as the main content of the current stage. It is noted that the proliferation of intellectual tools that has begun (individualized presentation of educational material, authentic assessment of achieved educational results, including high-level skills) helps to solve many organizational and pedagogical problems of personalizing learning. The lessons of the past stages of digital renewal are given, which should be taken into account in the work on the digital transformation of the school starting today. It is shown that educational organizations are moving at their own pace along the path of digital renewal, and many of them are in the early stages of this process. The latter must be taken into account when planning and organizing pedagogical research and implementing the digitalization of the general education system (equipping with digital technology, improving access to the Internet, developing and implementing digital services). The role of artificial intelligence and intelligent tools that change the perception of machine information processing and promise to intensify the processes of digital transformation of education and influence the labor market in the coming years is discussed.

About the Author

A. Yu. Uvarov
Axel Berg Institute of Cybernetics and Educational Computing, The Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation

Alexander Yu. Uvarov, Doctor of Sciences (Education), Professor, Leading Researcher 

Moscow 



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Uvarov A.Yu. From the first personal computers towards digital intelligent tools: 40 years of the compulsory informatics course at our public school. Informatics and education. 2025;40(1):5-13. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32517/0234-0453-2025-40-1-5-13

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