Аннотация:The article shows how modern sociocultural situation determines new requirements for an educational paradigm: active use of information and communication technologies, different forms of distant and electronic learning and immediate involvement of educational process participants in processing powerful information streams. In this regard, innovative educational technologies associated with visual thinking proved to be highly relevant and efficient. The paper focuses on infographics, which allows algorithmization of big data processing. Relying on personal experience of using this technology, the authors develop methodology to create iconographic images of different complexity satisfying goals and tasks of educational process.