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"Responding to this request, the NCCA carried out research including an audit of curriculum policy related to coding in 22 jurisdictions; a more in-depth investigation in six jurisdictions; and a review of literature on computational thinking. Concluding in a final report with key discussion points and future directions in relation to integrating coding and computational thinking in a redeveloped primary school curriculum."

All primary school children in England are required to write computer programs and learn about computational thinking. There are moves in other countries to this effect such as the U.S. K-12 Computer Science Framework (CSF) for development.

The badges featured on this page are issued by Badgeschool and focus specifically on helping early childhood, elementary, and secondary teachers learn how to integrate computational thinking and coding into their classrooms. To learn more about Badgeschool, badges for other technologies, and how you can earn these badges, please visit our FAQ page.

Students will learn the foundational skills of digital literacy and game & application development through multimodal, project-based learning. Modes of instruction include the coding of a programming language, media design, civic and service engagement, and informational and media literacy studies

Computational Thinking (CT) is emerging as a key competence across all disciplines, professions and throughout society. It can be defined as combining problem solving and design to create useful solutions, informed by the possibilities that Computing offers

In 2015 a curriculum framework for Computational Thinking was developed for lower secondary education in the Netherlands. The framework is based on ISTE and CSTA, translated for the curriculum in the Netherlands and validated by experts, teachers, teacher educators and publishers. Based on this validated curriculum a new learning trajectory was designed for primary education, in collaboration with teachers and principals from three schools.

Given the vast development of technological applications, education cannot ignore the use of technology in preparing students for participation in society. Technology use in education has become both a goal and a tool, implying that teachers need to be able to use technology as an effective tool in their teaching and students need to learn how to use technology appropriately in their day-to-day lives.

"Despite a growing effort to implement computational thinking (CT) skills in primary schools, little research is reported about what CT skills to teach at what age. Therefore, the research questions that guide this study read: (1) How is age related to students' success in computational thinking tasks? (2) How are computational thinking tasks perceived by students? (3) How do students' experience learning with respect to computational thinking? 200 primary school students between the age of 6 and 12 participated in this study. These students got introduced to two CT subjects: abstraction and decomposition. We found that age seems to be related with these concepts, with an interaction effect for gender in the abstraction task. No differences found between young and older students in the constructs perceived difficulty, cognitive load, and flow indicate that young primary school students can engage in learning these CT skills."

This curriculum, produced by a working party within CAS, describes in concrete terms what a Computing curriculum at school might look like. It uses the same structure as the National Curriculum Programmes of Study: importance of the discipline; key concepts; key processes; range and content; and level descriptors. It is not cast in stone, so please send feedback. In particular, it is intended to be comprehensible to school teachers (so please tell us if it isn't).

Brief van van minister Kamp (EZ), mede namens staatssecretaris Teeven (VenJ) en minister Plasterk (BZK), aan de Tweede Kamer met de kabinetsvisie op e-privacy.

De Rijksoverheid wil dat iedereen veilig kan internetten. En dat bedrijven en organisaties persoonsgegevens goed beschermen. Daarom zijn wereldwijd afspraken nodig voor het gebruik van online diensten.

Rapport over wat nodig is om te zorgen dat Nederland sterk blijft op het gebied van digitalisering.

Digitalisering is nu en in de toekomst belangrijk voor de welvaart in Nederland. Met de Digitale Agenda stimuleert het kabinet daarom de verdere digitalisering van de Nederlandse economie. Dat gebeurt op verschillende gebieden. "

Zorg eerst voor een goede basiskennis over tabletvaardigheden binnen één vak. Pas daarna kun je digitale vaardigheden uitbreiden naar de andere vakken.' Dat zegt Sabine Duijmelinck, docent Nederlands op De Nassau in Breda. Deze ontwikkelschool voor Digitale Geletterdheid bij curriculum.nu werkt al jaren volledig digitaal. Zo heeft iedere leerling een tablet met apps die schoolboeken en papieren lesmethodes vervangen.

"Ontwikkelschool Bernadette in Loo (po) hield samen met het Candea College in Duiven een innovatiedag waar leerlingen uit groep 7/8 en brugklassers samenwerkten aan digitale vaardigheden. Zo ontwierpen ze het huis van de 21e eeuw, manipuleerden ze foto's en moesten ze voor escapeboxen veilige wachtwoorden bedenken. 'Zo maak je meteen de doorlopende leerlijn tussen po en vo concreet', aldus innovatiecoördinator Judith van Iersel."