Infographics as an Effective Means of Forming Digital Competence of Secondary School Students

Abstract

In the article the aspects of the problem of formation digital competence of secondary school students are considered. Attention is drawn to the fact that during the visualization with the use of multimedia technologies the basic didactic principle of clarity is realized. It is noted that an effective means of visualization of educational materials in high school is infographics. The types of visualization categories (time series, probability distribution, maps and cartograms, hierarchy, network) are given. Services for creating infographics (Piktochart, Visual.ly, Many Eyes) are specified.