Tekst jest komunikatem z badań przeprowadzonych wśród studentów pierwszego roku pedagogiki - absolwentów kształcenia średniego, należących do pokolenia sieci i aktywnie zanurzonych w mobilnej kulturze cyfrowej. Celem artykułu jest analiza procesu partycypacji technologii cyfrowych w procesie kształcenia. Autor stawia tezę, że technologie cyfrowe można traktować jako zasoby kulturowe, zatem kształtowanie umiejętności ich twórczego wykorzystania jest podstawą nowoczesnej edukacji. Opinie badanych studentów służą odpowiedzi na pytanie zawarte w temacie tekstu, czy i w jakim stopniu kultura szkoły towarzyszy i wzmacnia kulturę mobilną, przygotowując do świadomego i odpowiedzialnego funkcjonowania uczniów w świecie cyfrowym. Badania prowadzą do wniosku, iż młodzi dorośli jako użytkownicy mobilnych mediów w zdecydowanej większości wyrażają swoje rozczarowanie jakością edukacji medialnej w placówkach, których są absolwentami.

Relationship – education – understanding: building virtual learning communities not only in the times of pandemic

The aim of the article is to analyze the process of education carried out in the conditions of online teaching. The author pays special attention to organizing the learning community. Learning is understood as the process of creating knowledge, where interaction and cooperation of students play an important role. The narrative is an extension of the thesis that in the case of distance learning there is a need to build a community of learners, where equally high importance is given to both cognitive and emotional effects. An important role of the teacher is to care for the mutual relations of students in virtual educational networks. The learning process carried out in a properly organized virtual network of students’ cooperation leads from mutual communication to understanding the content and creating knowledge, and learning becomes a very active mental process. The article discusses selected concepts of learning based on the cooperation of learners, the characteristics of which are translated into the model of collaborative learning in a virtual space, using the tools of modern digital technologies. The article indicates the importance of social relations in students’ virtual communities and the advantages of students’ educational activities in the digital space.

Digitalization of Education as a Vector of Training of Specialists in the XXI Century

The article deals with the analysis of phenomenon of digitalization of higher education as a factor of training of specialists who are able to provide professional functions in socio-economic conditions in the XXI century. The major directions of application of digitalization in education have been analyzed, the characteristic of digital educational environment has been carried out, the advantages and disadvantages (risks, related to the loose of skills in written fixation of the main ideas of the proposed material due to using electronic versions of educational programs, and, as a result, deterioration of the ability to remember and rethink it; risks of impaired ability to absorb large amounts of information due to «digest mania»; the risk of students’ developing so-called screen dependence; risks of possible reduction of mental abilities – «development of digital dementia»; risks of displacing live intercourse as communication, which in many cases is significantly more relevant for participants of the educational process than electronic learning technologies; risks related to health; threats posed by cybercrime; risks of system failures; risks of information manipulation) of digitalization of education have been highlighted. It has been generalized that digitalization of education – is a step to future that will change not just a content of educational courses, but also is a vector of information presentation. Development of digital technologies in the field of education is dictated by relevance and supported at the state level and in general. Digitalization – is a new social situation of «digital divide», «digital citizenship», «digital socialization». It has been emphasized that in the process of digitalization the structure of studying and the organization of the educational process are fundamentally changing. Use of new information and communication technologies is an initial condition of further development of digital pedagogy. From the point of view of methodology, digitalization of the higher education system is based on new educational standards, using the competence approach. It has been stated that today Ukrainian institutions of higher education use two-component information and educational environment, which combines the resources of international educational platforms with the content of personal developments, which contributes to the development of their own information potential. At the same time, it has been summarized that nowadays it is necessary to introduce modern digital base of educational process – the information and educational environment (IEE). The efficient implementation of the IEE is a basis for the development of any IHE. It has been found that digitalization of higher education will make changes in the qualification requirements of the teaching staff. Thus, instructors actively use digital technologies. IHE use new formats of knowledge transfer, first of all online courses. Such actions will lead to a serious restructuring of the educational process, changing the role of the teacher, who will not further explain any material, but will help to find the location of the necessary information and understand it.

“Included” in the network – excluded from freedom. Cyberspace participation in the dimension of time

The issue of the text focuses on the description of changes in the way of experiencing time by people involved in digital technologies. The article discusses the causes and consequences of new forms of human location in contemporary space-time, which is shaped and modified by modern technologies. The author puts forward the thesis that the attachment of a contemporary individual to virtual space can be treated as a kind of enslavement, considered in the dimension of time. Young people, whose childhood and adolescence were shaped under the influence of dynamically developing digital technologies, were chosen as the subject of the analysis. The issue of time is analyzed in the background of the current culture, which is called “the culture of the present”. The new quality of time can be assessed as captivating due to the speed imposed on man by the rapid progress of new technologies. The text also presents ways of rational time management in the digital world (in the ecology of time trend). This trend draws attention to the threats and dimensions of the enslavement of modern man resulting from excessive haste. It promotes the need to limit the dominance of social time and respect natural time.

The article examines various aspects of the use of artificial intelligence in the public administration system. In particular, the world experience of implementing intelligent technologies in management activities of the USA, China, Singapore, Japan, UAE, India, UK, Canada, Germany as leaders in the implementation of effective digital innovations in the field of public administration is considered. Attention is focused on creating favorable conditions at the state level to support initiatives for the development of artificial intelligence and determining its exceptional role in the further development of society. An analysis of Ukrainian practices of integrating artificial intelligence technologies into public administration proves that the use of digital innovations in domestic management activities is a definite pointer for the introduction and approval of relevant social, political, legal, economic, cultural norms in order to form a modern digital society, the most important element of which there is the development and active integration of artificial intelligence technologies into the management system and the formation of a «new» netocratic public administration. The article highlights key aspects of the implementation of artificial intelligence in public administration, including automation of administrative processes, data analysis, open access and exchange of information, security and protection of information, flexibility and adaptability, ensuring public participation, electronic platforms for citizen participation, identification and counteraction corruption, hybrid service systems, efficiency and innovation.