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.

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 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 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.

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.