Digitalization Of Education: The Use Of Virtual Laboratories As A New Stage In Improving The Educational Process

The socialization of the modern generation is actively carried out within the framework of virtual reality due to large-scale digitalization. Research by foreign and domestic scientists shows that the thinking of children of the digital generation has undergone changes. Students who actively use information and communication technologies have a higher level of erudition, creativity, psychological flexibility, independence, the pace of orientation in the information space, multitasking, perception of non–verbal images. As a result, it is important to build the learning process using ICT. One of the most innovative, interactive and multifunctional ways to digitalize learning is virtual laboratories, which allow you to simulate objects and processes, organize access in virtual reality to laboratory equipment, chemical and biological components, specialized facilities and other inaccessible factors. This approach is able to take the traditional school to a new level that meets the needs of modern society and educate a generation with a high level of information culture.