Features of the Development of Primary Education in the Context of the Impact of COVID-19

The main purpose of the article is to study the features of the development of primary education under the influence of COVID-19. Competently oriented primary education is a response to the challenges of modern society, to the requirements of new information progress. The crisis caused by a dangerous new coronavirus required urgent measures to reduce the risks of the spread of infection in various areas of people's lives and activities. In the field of primary education, an urgent transfer of the educational process to a distance form using e-learning technologies was chosen as such a measure. Such an attitude, in principle, corresponds to the current level of accessibility of digital technologies for the majority of the world's population. In addition, the vast majority of educational institutions, in accordance with accreditation requirements, must have an Internet connection, which is the basic criterion for assessing the ability of a school to work remotely using digital technologies. As a result of the study, the main prerequisites for the development of primary education under the impact of COVID-19 were identified