Digital educational technologies occupy an increasingly important place among others educational technologies. Thanks to their improvement, effective training is possible remote and mixed forms, which have become predominant since the beginning of the quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Modern teachers are tasked with constantly improving their digital skills educational technologies. This is also stated in the Teacher's Professional Standard through revealing the content of the teacher's information and digital competence. Process learning can be made more interesting, varied and intensive due to combining a regular lesson with a computer, tablet or other gadget. It will allow the teacher to transfer part of his work to the gadget. The teacher can speed up the writing of definitions, theorems, and other important parts material, as the teacher does not need to repeat the text several times in this case times (the teacher displayed the text on the screen). And the student of education does not need to wait until the teacher will repeat exactly the fragment he needs. The purpose of the work is to investigate the essence of the digitalization of education, to analyze the current global educational trends and to determine the key directions of digitalization of general secondary education in EU countries and in Ukraine. The main research methods were scientific abstraction, comparative and statistical analyzes, logical generalization, structural-functional and strategic analysis for substantiation and determination of directions of digital development of general secondary education. As a result of research, it will be established that the new concept of the development of the digital economy and society for the coming years assumes that the digitalization of education is a modern stage of its informatization. Digitization of secondary education is formed depending on the trends in the development of digital and IT readiness of society. Building a robust infrastructure for learning begins with an understanding of the goals and desired outcomes that support engaging and empowering learning experiences. When based on learning goals, technology infrastructure decisions become clear. The use of digital technologies is necessary to ensure the educational needs of all participants in the educational process.