In modern conditions, the problem of artificial intelligence is interdisciplinary in nature and at the moment the potential for using this technology in various spheres of life has not been studied. The introduction of artificial intelligence methods contributes to the modernization of the education and professional training system, taking into account the paradigm of digitalization and convergence of education, and will bring educational programs to the needs of the digital economy. The article substantiates the significance of the problem of developing the readiness of future teachers to use artificial intelligence technologies. The concepts of digital economy, digital technologies, digital ethics, digital literacy, artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence technologies are considered. The importance of using artificial intelligence methods in education is determined. The range of tasks for solving the problem of developing the readiness of future teachers to use artificial intelligence technologies is outlined.

The paper considers and analyzes various approaches to the model of digital competencies of teachers. The emphasis is on the latest research by Russian scientists devoted to the study of digital competencies, digital literacy, and digital skills. It is indicated that there is no single approach to considering the structure and content of the concept of “digital competencies”. The results of a study of digital competencies of Russian teachers, conducted in 2022, are shown.

The article presents the results of an all-Russian study of civic-patriotic values in a modern school. The psychological and pedagogical conditions for the formation of patriotic and civic values have been analyzed. In order to find the factors that determine this situation, an analysis of the patriotic values of schoolchildren was carried out, including the following sections: objects of identification; image of the Motherland; life goals and patriotic values; life position and socially significant activity; preferences and plans.

The article deals with the problems and prospects for the development of modern competencies of teachers in the process of digitalization of the educational process. A significant theoretical analysis of the problems of the development of digitalization of education and information and communication competencies of teachers has been carried out through generalizations of numerous studies. The theoretical argumentation of the development of innovativeness of teachers as a psychological characteristic that contributes to the formation of digital competencies is presented. The content of the article describes in detail the practical technology of organizing a teacher’s psychological and pedagogical laboratory in the form of a cycle of logically interconnected modules. This technology will allow organizing the development of teacher competencies, including digital ones, in the system of a modern educational institution. In conclusion, the necessity of introducing this system into the practice of modern education is substantiated.

The article deals with the use of a digital microscope in the study of biological disciplines in higher education. The digital microscope increases the visibility of the educational process, activates the cognitive activity of students and ensures more effective assimilation of educational material.

To solve the problem associated with highlighting the essence of updating modern teaching methods, which determines the readiness of a modern teacher for methodological activities in the development of the educational environment, a paradigmatic approach was chosen. When using this approach to analyze the genesis of teaching methods as a pedagogical phenomenon, paradigms of teaching methods are identified, for which the dominant teaching methods and the main factors influencing their emergence and (or) change in significance are indicated. Generalization of the established factors made it possible to draw a conclusion about the need to include in the operational composition of modern methods of teaching schoolchildren methods of working with information (its change, structuring and evaluation), as well as methods of self- and mutual learning, taking into account professional-conventional attitudes and communication possibilities of subjects of educational interaction in within the framework of cultural traditions and ideological rules.

The article considers the main problems raised by modern researchers concerning adolescent identity formation in the digital environment. The experience of forming the civic identity of schoolchildren in the digital space in educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is briefly presented.

The article is devoted to the actual problem of pedagogical interaction with students from China. The article reveals the characteristics of external and internal conditions that determine the specifics of adaptation of graduate students from China to study at a Russian university. The author of the article describes the methodological and psychological features of the interaction of teachers and graduate students in the classroom of pedagogical psychology in the context of intercultural communication and the use of blended learning. The necessity of training teachers for the necessary adaptation of educational activities to the personal characteristics of students from China is shown.

The need to modernize engineering education and the quality of training of technical specialists, including in military universities, is due to the leading positions of the country, which it has always occupied in the development of new technologies and innovation. The article proposes a consideration of the STEM approach based on the concept of learning in a new economic reality, when most, including industrial processes, go through digital automation. The necessity of training narrow-profile military specialists through the prism of digital transformation, the development of STEM laboratories in military universities, the training of military teachers for training in rare specialties, as well as raising the level of engineering education in accordance with modern world standards in the technological field are considered.

The article considers the trends of effective use of multimedia technologies in the process of perception of educational information by students in the conditions of transformation of mass education. The problems of digitalization are noted, which complicate the process of real and effective development and implementation of multimedia technologies in the modern educational process. The data of sociological research and examples of psychological and pedagogical practice in educational organizations are given.

The article analyzes the state and prospects for the development of digitalization of modern education, and also attempts to assess the changes occurring in the system of upbringing and training of the younger generation under the influence of phenomena accompanying the digital transformation of the educational process. At the same time, the analysis of scientific articles shows the presence of conflicting views on the issues of digitalization itself and the results of its dissemination in the system of education and upbringing of a growing person. In this regard, the editors invite all researchers to take part in the discussion of key issues of informatization and digitalization in pedagogical science.

The article, The Educational Process and Specifics of Its Reproduction: Historical, Philosophical, and Psychological Aspects (The Approach from the Synergetic Historicism Viewpoint) is focused on discussing the new methodological approach from the terms of Synergetic Historicism to the study on the educational process’ specifics and to the analysis of historical, philosophical, and psychological aspects of conceptualizing the education phenomenon. The results of the investigation in question based on the Law of Self-Organizing Social and Cultural Ideals and the Method of Dual Oppositions as well as on the results of the analysis of the world history of developing educational concepts, showed that the educational process regarded as the dynamic factor of modifying the biological nature of self-conscious subjects may be reconsidered as the process of permanent sublimating the instinctive nature of human species transformed into social and cultural animals with the Self originally inherent to them. The approach proposed allows not only to rethink the phenomenon in question under conditions of the human brain structure digitally transformed, but also to take into consideration the specific nature of conscious subjects as the bearers of spiritual values, on the one hand, and as the consumers of utilities, on the other.

The article, The Educational Process, Its Nature, Its Origins, and Its Transformations (The Approach from the Synergetic Historicism Viewpoint) is focused on discussing the new methodological approach from the terms of Synergetic Historicism to the study on the educational process’ dynamic nature and its transformations in the epoch of the Digital Revolution. The results of the investigation in question based on the Law of Self-Organizing Social and Cultural Ideals and the Method of Dual Oppositions as well as the results of the analysis of negative transformations of human consciousness, showed that under global social and political transformations which discovered such a destructive potential as a threat of the World War III as well as of annihilating Human Civilization by Intelligent Machines, any losses by the local societies’ members of their capabilities to accept compromise on political as well on territorial conflicts inevitably hastens the technological singularity point, causing a spiral of Human self-destruction. The approach proposed allows to rethink products of the synthesis between technological, social, and cultural progresses as the act of self-transformation of Homo Faber (regarded as traditional biological bearers of psychic information) into Homo Digitalis (regarded as instruments of reproducing digital culture) intended to be replaced by Intelligent Machines.

The article presents the results of All-Russian studies on the formation and development of civil-patriotic values in modern Russian school, and the psychological and pedagogical conditions of their formation are analyzed. The search for new approaches to solving actual theoretical and practical problems of civil and patriotic education of schoolchildren has been carried out. Effective and promising ways of improving patriotic education in general education organizations have been identified, and the importance of online information resources in the process of educating teenagers in the context of digitalization of education has been updated.

The article presents practical formats for interaction with children and adolescents in the digital environment. The essence of the new digital application for Youth Army members is revealed, attention is drawn to the strengths and weaknesses of communication in the digital space.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most innovative tools that opens up additional opportunities in the field of digitalization of military education. Penetrating into all areas of educational activities of a military university, AI is able to increase the efficiency of many management decisions, complementing the limited capabilities of people. The article reflects the main results of the author’s research on the problem of integrating AI technologies into the educational environment of a military university in the context of digitalization. In particular, the results of the analysis are presented regarding key aspects of the use of AI technologies in an educational organization. The main functions that can be improved using AI technologies have been identified. The problems arising in the process of introducing digital technologies are identified.

The digitalization of education stimulates the transformation of the content, forms, methods of educational activities, requirements for the professional competencies of teachers. The article defines the importance of professional mobility, which provides an adequate response to ongoing changes, readiness for selfdevelopment and professional self-realization. The possibilities of open educational resources and massive open online courses for the development of professional mobility of teachers in the modern digital educational environment are considered.

The article is devoted to the practical experience of working on patriotic education with teenagers of the Unarmia movement in a specially created mobile application. The article considers an example of the interaction of children and adolescents with each other in the network under emerging communication conditions.

The article deals with the problem of the transformation of the education system in the conditions of the spread of artificial intelligence technologies and digitalization. It is demonstrated that the problems identified as key for modern education are not specific problems of modernity. In this regard, it is proposed to consider the necessary transformation of modern education not as a radical transformation and the creation of a fundamentally new system, but as a deconstruction of its foundations. The author points out that the term “deconstruction”, introduced into modern philosophy by J. Derrida, suggests, on the one hand, an appeal to the origins, to the tradition at its very foundation, and the identification of the most significant components of this tradition, and on the other hand, a critical revision of the current state of the problem from the point of view of these origins, which seems to be the most adequate state of affairs in modern education and the its tasks.

The article analyzes the digitalization of the modern Chinese higher education system in China, describes both the challenges and the opportunities it presents for management, including the standardization of education, competition in the global market, as well as the strengthening of cultural exchange and international interaction. Given China’s rapid development and its growing influence in the global economy and politics, special attention is being paid to the changes and reforms taking place in the education sector. The authors reveal key aspects of the Chinese higher education system, such as accessibility, quality of education, innovation and international cooperation.