The Informatics Reference Framework for School (release February 2022)

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Within Europe, a lot of effort has focused on digital competences, which mostly address the operational aspects of an appropriate preparation for the digital society; however, education in informatics is still fragmented and receiving insufficient attention.

In its earlier work, the Informatics for All coalition developed a two-tier strategy for informatics in general education. On the one hand, informatics should be seen as an important foundational discipline with a standing being on a par with mathematics and the languages. But the strategy also highlights the potential of informatics to be exploited in the teaching of all other disciplines, leading to deeper forms of education and insight in these other disciplines.

The Informatics for All coalition is presenting this report to address the first tier by providing support for the advancement and development of informatics as a fundamental discipline for the 21st century and to serve as a general reference framework for both tiers.

The report outlines an informatics reference framework for education in school which is intended to offer high-level guidance that may be used by, and indeed stimulate, curriculum designers to review their focus and approach to the subject of informatics. It is based on a set of core concepts which capture an essential view of informatics as a discipline in general education. Specific curricula will have to be defined in each country, taking into account their traditions, language, culture, and particular synergy with developing basic digital competences and the use of informatics in other subjects.

The document is deliberately synthetic and short, to provide a minimum set of high-level common requirements, leaving space for the national communities of colleagues in various countries to derive fully-fledged curricula both attuned to their culture and needs, and coherent with a common European vision of informatics.

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Informatics Reference Framework for School (release February 2022)
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