The problem of providing psychological comfort in the digital educational environment of rural schools

Currently, digitalization has penetrated into all spheres of society, including education. At the same time, the use of digital technologies has not only positive, but also negative sides, which affects the quality of interaction of all subjects of the educational process. Some aspects of the digitalization of education reduce the psychological comfort of students, parents and teachers. The purpose of this study is to identify and describe the existing difficulties, risks, barriers, major changes and prospects of rural schools in the context of digital transformation, which affect the psychological comfort of the educational environment. Taking into account various risks and negative factors for students, parents and teachers will create psychologically comfortable quality of the educational environment. It is necessary to take into account the content of the learning process and the organizational and communicative conditions of the educational environment for optimal interaction of students with the intra-school and external environment. Psychological comfort is a factor of identification of students with teachers in the educational environment of rural school, which contributes to the development of subjectivity of teachers and students. The condition for ensuring psychological comfort is the use of a variety of pedagogical tools by the teacher. The leading methods of studying the problem were the analysis of pedagogical and methodological literature, regulatory documents, and questionnaires. The scientific novelty of the article material is determined by the fact that an attempt is made to analyze the problems of ensuring psychological comfort in the conditions of the digital educational environment of rural school. Teachers, taking into account these risks and barriers, can find positive aspects and opportunities of «numbers» in the education of rural schoolchildren and create conditions for fully realised learning, student development, pedagogical support and interaction with parents. The materials of this article can be used by teachers to improve the quality of the digital educational environment of rural school.