UDC 378-042.4:004
https://doi.org/10.20339/AM.02-23.042
S.P. Koryakovtsev, Cand. Sc. (Pedagogy) at Yaroslavl Higher Military School of Air Defense, e-mail: youth1@mail.ru
Alexander Yu. Kulikov, PhD (Psychology) at Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushinsky, е-mail: kayur2008@gmail.com
The article analyzes the level of digital knowledge and skills of students. The author conducted a sociological study, within which a survey and testing of full-time students was carried out to assess their digital literacy. It has been established that boys, to a greater extent than girls, are engaged in searchieng, downloading, installing and configuring software in everyday life and use different programming languages (SQL, R, C++, etc.). In addition, it was found that boys are more likely than girls to install (reinstall) a new operating system. Girls, to a greater extent than boys, use programs for editing photo, video and audio files in everyday practice after studying. Unfortunately, only one-fifth of students work with big data and edit and manage website content.
It was found that girls are more likely than boys to blog (regularly replenish it with entries, images or multimedia), as well as upload personal author’s files (articles/magazines, music, videos, programs, etc.) to any sites, social networks etc. for public access. It has been established that girls mostly conduct financial transactions using the Internet (Internet banking). Boys are more likely than girls to carry out search queries about everything related to sports.
It was also revealed that over the past six months, only a small part of the students surveyed had the opportunity to improve their skills in working with computer software as part of their studies at the university. Basically, students, regardless of gender and age characteristics, increased the level of digital literacy on their own as part of additional professional training. It has been established that students do not fully use the resources provided in the electronic educational environment. Most often, they receive assignments from teachers there, pass tests, test papers, etc. It was revealed that boys are more ready than girls to perform complex operations, independently write macros, algorithms, syntax. The author of the article proposes activities aimed at improving the digital literacy of students.
Key words and word combinations: digital literacy, digital technologies, digital generation, digitalization, mobile learning, digital skills, digital competencies.
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