The role of cloud technologies in digital transformation of education (on the example of secondary vocational education)

Abstract

The article describes the capabilities of cloud technologies (using the example of Google services) in implementing the target model of the digital educational environment and developing the first stage of digital transformation of education using the example of the general education course “Informatics” in secondary vocational education. The article substantiates the relevance of updating the content of educational programs of secondary vocational education in accordance with the requirements of the digital economy in the context of the implementation of Federal State Educational Standards of Secondary Vocational Education for 50 most demanded in the labor market, new and promising professions and specialties (FSES of Secondary Vocational Education for TOP-50). The novelty of the work in the context of digital transformation of secondary vocational education is shown. The relationships between the didactic capabilities of cloud technologies and the types of educational activities of students and the requirements of digital transformation of education are analyzed. A comparative analysis of the functional support of the components of the target model of the digital educational environment by means of cloud technologies is carried out. The experience of organizing the training of students of the Perm Commerce and Technology College in the groups of the profession “Cook, Pastry Chef” in the framework of the general educational discipline “Informatics” based on the use of cloud technologies as a model of a digital educational environment in the formation of general and subject competences is presented. In the presented experience, cloud technologies (Google services) are considered as the main and as an auxiliary didactic tool in the context of general functionality of Google services, types of didactic tasks for open source software, approximate thematic planning in the subject of “Informatics” for secondary vocational education. The results of the work can be useful to scientists, teachers and methodologists of higher and secondary vocational education, and can also be used directly by teachers of the course “Informatics” in secondary vocational education.