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"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."

The ISTE Standards for Students booklet is your guide to ISTE's leading-edge standards that empower learners who live, work and play in a technology-infused world. These standards amplify learning and empower student voice, preparing today's learners for the new literacies they face. The Student Standards are presented amid content that defines and characterizes them, and answers the important question: What do the Student Standards look like in practice?

"This study investigates how cognitive, affective, and behavioral variables related to artificial intelligence (AI) build AI self-efficacy among university students. Based on these variables, we identify three meaningful student groups, which can guide educational initiatives. We recruited 1465 undergraduate and graduate students from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany and measured their AI self-efficacy, AI literacy, interest in AI, attitudes towards AI, and AI use. Using a path model, we examine the correlations and paths among these variables. Results reveal that AI usage and positive AI attitudes significantly predict interest in AI, which in turn and together with AI literacy, enhance AI self-efficacy."

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.

The Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students (MITECS) support the Top 10 in 10 Strategic Plan. The competencies specifically address two components of the Learner-Centered Supports Focus Area which include Personalized Learning and Deeper Learning. Successful implementation of the MITECS requires professional learning for technology integration to support an Effective Education Workforce. Strategic Partnerships are a critical component of the MITECS as students access networks of professional experts and explore local community issues. Finally the MITECS inherently require Systemic Infrastructure - access to devices and robust connectivity to enable everywhere, all-the-time learning.

Do today's youth have more opportunities than their parents? As they build their own social and digital networks, does that offer new routes to learning and friendship? How do they navigate the meaning of education in a digitally connected but fiercely competitive, highly individualized world? Based upon fieldwork at an ordinary London school, The Class examines young people's experiences of growing up and learning in a digital world. In this original and engaging study, Livingstone and Sefton-Green explore youth values, teenagers' perspectives on their futures, and their tactics for facing the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. The authors follow the students as they move across their different social worlds-in school, at home, and with their friends, engaging in a range of activities from video games to drama clubs and music lessons. By portraying the texture of the students' everyday lives, The Class seeks to understand how the structures of social class and cultural capital shape the development of personal interests, relationships and autonomy. Providing insights into how young people's social, digital, and learning networks enable or disempower them, Livingstone and Sefton-Green reveal that the experience of disconnections and blocked pathways is often more common than that of connections and new opportunities."

National School Library Standards crosswalk with ISTE Standards for Students and Educators

As the COVID-19 pandemic worsened in countries across the globe, most governments took the precaution of closing their schools in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. Schools were forced to replace this time in class with online learning and home schooling, in most cases facilitated by teachers and parents. After weeks of school closures, some countries are now starting the complicated process of gradually reopening their schools. To support these efforts, this COVID-19 country note aims to bring together evidence from various OECD school education surveys conducted prior to the crisis and use it to examine how prepared teachers, students and schools were in Netherlands to face the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a view to informing and guiding future policy responses to the crisis.

Computational Thinking (CT) is a problem solving process that includes a number of characteristics and dispositions. CT is essential to the development of computer applications, but it can also be used to support problem solving across all disciplines, including the humanities, math, and science. Students who learn CT across the curriculum can begin to see a relationship between academic subjects, as well as between life inside and outside of the classroom."

A Helsinki University researcher says Finland's current digital and 'phenomenon-based' learning methods used in schools may not be suitable for all students

Common Sense Education's K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum maps to a number of national and Common Core standards. Use these charts to identify the ways in which our lessons help meet the learning objectives for your students.

This document outlines key aspects related to Common Sense Education's original Digital Citizenship Curriculum Scope & Sequence as compared to our all-new curriculum in 2019. Overall, lessons and other resources included in the new curriculum are easier to use and more relevant for teachers and students today. You will find an explanation of the topic differences, lesson differences, and recommendations for your classroom, school, or district to update your curriculum and plans with our new resources.

Gain access to three quality, research-based courses direct from ISTE and Metiri Group. These courses are designed to assist in the implementation of the ISTE Standards for Students from 2016. The courses are research based, accessible on mobile devices, and provide users the opportunity to complete the courses and earn a certificate or micro-credential to demonstrate their work.

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

The education systems of the 59 countries that participated in this survey have demonstrated remarkable resilience, flexibility and commitment to education in having established strategies for education continuity, in extremely challenging conditions, during the Covid-19 pandemic. For the most part, those strategies were viewed positively by senior administrators, teachers, and school and other education administrators, in terms of their implementation and the results they achieved in providing a considerable number of students access to at least part of the curriculum.

The chapters in the 2020 edition of Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education represent some of the finest research from our SITE 2020 Annual Conference. Each paper here has undergone several rounds of rigorous review, and we are pleased to share them with you in this twelfth edition. These chapters, focused on curriculum studies, educator development, and student learning, demonstrating the wide scope of SITE researchers, and showing the international representation that can be found within the SITE community.

In recent years, many European countries have revised their statutory compulsory education curriculum, introducing basic Computer Science concepts. This has paved the way for the development of students' Computational Thinking (CT) skills. Further impetus in this direction is coming from the European Commission´s Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027, where quality Computing Education is a key element under the priority "Enhancing digital skills and competences for the digital transformation."