The development of skills for processing different types of information among schoolchildren at humanities lessons

The practice of teaching humanities courses includes working with information as a meta-subject result of training. The purpose of the study is to find methodological ways to develop students’ information skills at humanities lessons. The subject of the study is methods and techniques for the development of skills for processing different types of information – verbal (textual), non-verbal (visual-graphic). The paper presents an analysis of the level of students’ information skills development based on the material of the control and measurement materials of the unified state exam at humanities lessons (Russian, foreign language, literature, history, social studies). Based on the analysis, the authors have developed tasks designed to develop students’ ability to determine the properties of information based on its properties: reliability (reliable/unreliable), sufficiency (excessive/insufficient), significance (primary or secondary). Using the example of the course «Russian language», tasks based on authentic verbal material, which is used in school teaching practice, are proposed. Authentic texts, a discussion in chat rooms, correspondence in messengers, a ticket to a performance and student essays are offered. The tasks reflect questions to determine the reliability, sufficiency of information, which can be similarly posed when analyzing verbal and nonverbal information in other humanities.