Digital First
Educating students in informatics at school is essential to equip every citizen with the necessary knowledge to participate, influence, and contribute to the development of the digital world. By learning informatics, students can safely and critically navigate the internet and contribute to an expanding infosphere that consists of more and more algorithms that may be biased or information that may be flawed or incomplete.
DIGITAL FIRST – Digital tech as the first language: Informatics for digital natives is a groundbreaking project aimed at shaping the future of informatics education in primary and secondary schools across Europe to match the needs of today’s children, the digital natives, born in a digital world and arriving at school education already with a certain level of digital skills.
DIGITAL FIRST calls for a move from a traditional approach in informatics education based on programming languages and technical knowledge to an innovative pedagogical approach focusing on computational thinking to help students learn how to address real-life challenges. This shift in education will encourage the young generation to be “active creators” of the digital world, rather than “passive consumers”.
https://digitalfirstnetwork.eu/