Conditions of digitalization of education in aspect of the problem of forming ICT competence of students of pedagogical college as future teachers

The article substantiates the significance of the problem of the formation of future teachers’ ICT competence. The author’s definition of the concept “ICT competence of a student of a pedagogical college” is presented, its components (motivational-value, user-wide, general pedagogical, subject-pedagogical) are highlighted and described. Based on the analysis of normative documents, recommendations, studies in the field of digitalization of the economy and education, the conditions for the digitalization of education are highlighted and justified: the legislative framework for the digitalization of education; digital generation of students; digital pedagogical technologies and educationally significant digital technologies; training the human potential of the digital economy; digital educational environment of educational organization. The characteristics of the conditions for digitalization of education are described. The experience of taking into account the conditions of digitalization of education in the aspect of the problem of the formation of ICT competence of students as future teachers is described on the example of an educational organization — GAPOU “Chita Pedagogical College”, specialty 44.02.01 Preschool education. An example of the organization of a laboratory and practical lesson using various digital technologies in the framework of the author’s interdisciplinary course “Theory and Methods of Using ICT in a Preschool Educational Organization” is given. Based on the analysis of the results of the pedagogical experiment, the conclusion is substantiated that the application of the digitalization of education in the educational process of the pedagogical college in the aspect of the formation of ICT competence of future teachers is one of the effective ways of forming the ICT competence of future educators of preschool children.