Hevko Ihor. Information technologies in education: opportunities and negative consequences. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(1):69-77. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2539555 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6473 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 03.01.2019. Revised: 11.01.2019. Accepted: 14.01.2019. Information technologies in education: opportunities and negative consequences Ihor Hevko Ternopil Vladimir Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University doctor of pedagogical sciences, professor Abstract The article discusses the impact of information education on the development of society. The article discusses the main problems and prospects of education informatization. In the information society, information technology occupies a special place. The use of information technology in the educational process significantly increases its effectiveness. Determined that the informatization of education is characterized by the use of computer-oriented teaching systems at different stages of training in higher and secondary schools, teaching the use of information technologies, which are, in turn, the procedural component of the computer-oriented educational systems. However, there are a number of problems complicating the process of informatization of education. Keywords. Education, information society, informatization, computer, information technology, distance education.