Opportunities of network design in the formation of students' professional competence

The article substantiates the importance of developing future teachers' professional competence through network design in the current conditions of digital transformation of society and the state, as well as changes in the characteristics of modern youth (critical thinking, clip-based perception, and gamification of the world, etc.). The article also explores the role of a teacher's patriotic stance in fostering the patriotism of the younger generation. It is argued that network design is associated with the structural positioning of unlimited numbers of interconnected participants, with the possibility of adding new links and complexes to the system for organized shared resource use, a system of mutual influence and connections between professional communities of teachers, organized synchronously or asynchronously. The effectiveness of project technology in network interaction is examined using the example of crowdsourcing and confirmed by the results of an express survey of the emotional, communicative, and technological attitudes of future teachers from two universities: Kuban State University and Orel State University named after I.S. Turgenev. Crowdsourcing technology is presented in the form of a technological map of a practical lesson on the consideration of a pedagogical case for future teachers in the academic discipline «Theory and Technology of Education» in four stages: introductory, prognostic, design, and final.