This article is an attempt to discuss models of digital competence formation among future teachers. Presently, pre-service teachers are a generation that makes intensive use of Internet resources. However, basic ICT skills are not sufficient for effective implementation of new media in their future professional work (didactic and educational areas). This text is a discussion of two models of shaping professional digital competences in the course of academic education. Both models are based on creating knowledge, changing attitudes, as well as building skills that enable adequate, methodically correct and conscious use of ICT as an effective tool in didactic or educational digital environment (full e-learning, blended learning). The text is part of the discussion on the models of digitalisation of education with particular emphasis on the training of pedagogical staff in the intensely developing information society.