POPULARIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE WITH USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract. The influence of information and communication technologies on the level of education in contemporary society is studied. Introduction. In 60-th years XX century, modern humanity reached the maximum of its scientific and technological strength, driven by the develop-ment of a nuclear-missile race. The consequence of the new technologies de-velopment, as well as the significant result of which, was the introduction to space exploration. At this time, respect for science and scientists peaked. It was learned at that time a scientist exactly was the standard of character, able to perform any feat in the name of humanity. It is obvious, that for the emergence of a thinker of genius is necessary to prepare a huge mass of well-educated sci-entific manpower. Due to the fact, that it was considered fashionable to be smart, it was able to maintain young people's interest in science. Youth imitated a famous scientist in the style of speech and manners of clothing, was interest-ed in the opinion of scientists and tried to get to the core of scientific research. Most of the surveyed respondents on the street could easily name all the astro-nauts have flown in space, and to retell their detailed biographies. There was a huge demand for engineers of different specializations, physicists and mathe-maticians were needed. Mass media, which popularized and fueled (warmed up) interest in the latest scientific knowledge, were playing enormous role in the popularization of scientific knowledge, as well as the interest of the youth in this. Popular science films were created, popular science publications were printed, TV and radio debates of scientific orientation were held. And all this was done at a high level with the obligatory references to reliable sources of in-formation.