Abstract
The article describes the process of formation of digital competence in future specialists of preschool education, special skills and abilities of orientation in information flows, application of necessary digital information, its adequate perception and critical thinking. Examples of practical application of digital technologies in preschool education are given: analysis of pedagogical phenomena that take place when using Power Point, social media, networks, blogs and websites to teach students. The concept of “digital competence” is revealed. The article clarifies that with the help of digital technologies can be implemented educational, didactic, organizational and creative functions: stimulation and development of cognitive processes; ensuring democratization, openness, individualization, interactivity, flexibility and accessibility of learning, creative self-realization, and personal self-development. It is determined that the use of digital technologies expands the operational capabilities of pedagogical reality, deepens its virtual characteristics, which include: travel to the world of mathematical, natural, philological, artistic, anthropological concepts; spiritualization of categories, phenomena, characters and communication with them; moving along the axis of time and imaginary stay in distant epochs, communication with people who lived in different historical periods; transfer to parallel realities (book, television, Internet); safe experimentation with concepts, phenomena, arbitrary choice of actions that do not lead, as in real life, to irreparable consequences; correction of events that occurred; recurrence of events in order to change their consequences; creative development of educational and cognitive reality from the local to the global level.
 Keywords: digital competence, digital technologies, functions of digital competence, preschool education specialists, information and communication technologies.
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