Smart Education as a New Education Paradigm: Pro et Contra

The development of technology affects the nature of social relations, which clearly demonstrates the format of social dynamics (traditional society - agrarian society - industrial society - post-industrial society - information society, etc.). The most modern technologies, which are generally characterized as smart technologies today, contribute to the formation of a new type of society-smart society. Such processes significantly affect such a social institution as education and lead to the emergence of smart education. The aim of the publication is to define smart education as a new educational paradigm and also to clarify whether this paradigm contains new meanings and values for society or not. The main research methods used in the article are the conceptual-notional analysis and a comparative approach. During the study, the potential of etymological analysis was used. As a result of the study, the criterion of the subject was used to determine educational paradigms. On this basis, the authors identify two main educational paradigms: "knowledge" (subjectively non-oriented) and subjectively oriented. The purpose of education in the framework of the first paradigm is to obtain knowledge, and in the framework of the second paradigm it is the development of the subject (person, group, community) as a person, or his/her personal characteristics. In the process of historical development, the first paradigm has become an integral part of the second paradigm. The active use of smart technologies (smart education) does not lead to a change in the purpose of education; therefore, it cannot be unambiguously recognized as a new educational paradigm. But such a course of development is not excluded and will be quite possible if our understanding of the subject changes. At the moment, the most effective way to use smart education is to use the latter in relation to traditional education. The results obtained in the first place have conceptual consequences and methodological significance associated with understanding the place and role of smart technologies in the implementation of the educational process at any level (primary, secondary, higher), as well as the formation of awareness of the fact that it is not necessary to exaggerate the role of the technological factor in the learning process and the risk of underestimating the latter in its influence on the nature of socialization in modern society.

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