Development of information competencies via process modelling and ICT integration

Today it is very important to prepare students for challenges of knowledge economy. It is necessary for all graduates to understand functions, possibilities, advantages and disadvantages of the information and communication technology, modelling and simulation. However informatics, modelling and the use of ICT create a very extensive field for studying. How can we integrate the above mentioned targets into the education? The article summarizes the results of the research of information competencies of secondary school graduates who entered the first grade at the Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Košice. The main issue we are dealing with is how to develop information competencies of our graduates - the future advanced users - via integration many aspects of the ICT use and process modelling into the education. We developed an innovative manner of education based on modelling, simulation and on a well known opinion that “no kind of teaching can replace the personal experience”. In the proposed innovative way of teaching we are trying to transform problem solving process into an active process of cognition. The paper deals with the experience in teaching and it also discusses the base of knowledge and methods which have been implemented into the subject Informatics II.