THE ROLE OF DISCIPLINE "SOCIAL INFORMATICS" IN THE PREPARATION OF FUTURE TEACHERS IN A DIGITAL SOCIETY
The article presents the program content of educational discipline «Social Informatics». The introduction of this discipline in the curriculum of preparation of bachelors in a direction «Pedagogical education» is aimed at solving the problem of formation of ability of bachelors to use scientific and mathematical knowledge for orientation in the modern information space. At the same time, the availability of relevant knowledge from students is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to solve this problem, since the basis of the orientation in the modern information space are the value orientations of entities. This contradiction is removed by the introduction in the learning process of the discipline «Social Informatics».