Digital socialization as a main paradigm of vocational training in a higher school

Moiseeva Tatiana

The article touches upon the problem of the digital socialization of the students of higher schools resulted from the fast development of information technologies. Nowadays, a socio-technological environment is being created providing unlimited opportunities for improvement of a digital personality and a cognitive evolution of skills needed to live in the virtual space. Digital technologies are integrating in existing social systems and are encouraging the formation of the digital competence of the graduates. A new type of a digital person is appearing – a man “connected” who lives in a virtual reality. Information communicative innovations lead to the development of new education standards and approaches, change the requirements for the teachers’ staff and training of the graduates, transform the labor market. The education becomes the crucial national resource, the same as raw materials without which the sustainable development of the country is impossible. The level of the digital connectedness to the social nets has become an important factor determining all educational activities of the higher schools of Russia.

Keywords:digital socialization; virtual space; a man ‘connected’; digital personality; transformation of education; communicative skills.