Current issues of digital skills formation in modern education

Abstract

The article is about current problems of formation of a set of students’ digital skills in a new learning format. The authors of the study, having studied European standards for teaching information skills at various levels, consider digital skills as necessary for mastering professional knowledge, managing modern and future life, techniques and technologies. The authors of the article analyze the conditions for their formation in the process of vocational education and make an attempt to define them within the framework of qualifications in five aspects: digital literacy and ability to organize information blocks, space for conversations and interaction; information security and search for solutions. The article also identifies and substantiates the need to design basic digital skills for students, updates the creation of a scientific and methodological basis for teaching digital skills during organized learning, and reveals the strategies of pedagogical approaches to blended learning. In addition, it is shown that digital didactics is the basis for creating modern methods and strategies for teaching a profession in a digital format, however, in order to implement all the principles and strategies of digital learning, it is necessary to eliminate the question of forming students’ digital competencies and level digital skills.