Digital literacy of students of professional educational organizations: factors and tools for digitalization of the educational process

The article is devoted to the problems of studying the processes of transformation of the digitalization of education on the example of the analysis of digital tools used in the system of professional educational organizations. The authors point out the contradictions of digitalization, emphasize both positive and negative characteristics of this process. On the basis of a large-scale empirical study of students of professional educational organizations of the Chelyabinsk region, aspects related to the assessment by students of the level of attention to digital literacy issues, the frequency of using various types of digital tools in the educational process and the assessment of the significance of factors influencing the digitalization of education are studied. Conclusions are given about the importance of increasing the digital competencies of teachers of professional educational organizations as a factor influencing the digitalization of the educational process as a whole.