Digitalization of the educational environment as a factor of personal and professional self-determination of students

Abstract

The relevance of the study is caused by the challenges, which determined the schools' inclusion in the global digitalization processes. The inevitable consequence of digitalization is the transformation of the educational environment and the social situation of students' development. The research problem is the lack of theoretical understanding of the school being transformed under the influence of dynamically developing processes of digitalization, its role in ensuring the quality of general education. The goal is to identify the digital environment impact on the tasks and content of the school's work with students. The everyday life of which is connected with digital devices and technologies as new social and cultural means. The study is based on the approaches of domestic and foreign scientists of the digitalization of general education issues. Results: problem areas and advantages of digitalization are identified, vectors of changes in the content of education, forms, and technologies for working with students are studied; it is proved that the digital transformation of the school environment brings new models for the formation of critical competencies among students as a necessary condition for freedom of choice of the route of self-determination.