EDUCATORS’ DIGITAL COMPETENCE IN FRAMES OF EDUCATION EMERGENCY DIGITALIZATION
Keywords:
digitalization of education, emergency digitalization, digital competence of educators, elements of digital competence, digital societyAbstract
The article highlights the concept of emergency digitalization of education as a response to the realities of today’s educational processes, determined by the restrictions of physical contacts due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and further by the lack of possibility for conducting educational process in classrooms due to the war in Ukraine.
Digital competence is seen in the article as one of the key competences of educators who currently face the challenges of emergency digitalization of education. While highlighting the elements and structure of digital competence of educators, the article is grounded on the provisions of the European framework of digital competence of educators as a model for defining the essence of digital competence.
The article outlines six main areas of digital competence, which focus on various aspects of professional activities of educators, and briefly describes each of them: professional engagement, digital resources; organization of training; assessment; expansion of educational opportunities; facilitating learners’digital competence.
The main tasks placed before educators in the context of the digital competence formation have been identified in the article. They include, in particular, the identification and selection of appropriate digital resources, taking into account the context and objectives of learning; critical assessment of the reliability of digital products and resources; restrictions on the use or reuse of digital resources (copyright, file type, technical requirements, legal provisions, availability); the ability to assess the benefits of digital resources in addressing a specific learning goal, the level of digital competence of a particular learner, as well as the correlation of the pedagogical approach with digital resources; ability to select and combine existing digital resources or their parts, to create new digital educational resources and products; collaboration in the field of digital educational resources.
