UkrainianProfessional Education

Abstract

The article reveals the essence of the concepts related to the information competence of future specialists in the field of technological education. It is noted that at the present stage of society’s development, there are significant and crucial changes in the world’s educational environment. They are associated with the comprehensive process of globalization, i.e., a person should be able to navigate and critically evaluate information, especially in conditions of its wide availability and excess, distinguish between facts and opinions, and determine their essence and reliability, which requires special training to live and work in the information society, so as not to get lost in it. It practically requires special training to live and work in the information society; so as not to get lost. This issue is reflected in the emergence of the category «information culture,» which is considered and perceived as part of universal culture. It is due to the realities of the modern information society, which includes the content and values of human activity in the world of information surplus. An integral part of it is information competence is a set of understandable ways to interact with information. Accordingly, the authors have described the main components of the specialist’s information competence in the context of the current stage of informatization of education and the importance of its formation in the future specialist in any subject area, including technological education. It is generalized that information competence is considered an integral quality of personality, which characterizes the ability to solve problems and typical problems that arise in real-life situations, using modern information and communication technologies to achieve professionally significant goals. It is also an integrative quality of personality, which is the result of reflecting the processes of selection, assimilation, processing, transformation, and generation of information into a specific type of subject-specific knowledge that allows you to develop, adapt, predict and implement optimal solutions in various fields

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