TY - GEN
T1 - K-8 Digital Literacy Curriculum in the Netherlands
AU - Grgurina, Nataša
AU - Tolboom, Jos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - So far, in the Netherlands there has been no compulsory education in digital literacy or informatics in primary or secondary education. In 2022, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science tasked the Netherlands Institute for Curriculum Development (SLO) to develop the curriculum (i.e., the core objectives) for digital literacy for primary and lower secondary education. SLO formed a team including elementary and lower secondary education teachers, education specialists and teacher educators, and SLO curriculum specialists. Over a course of fifteen months, this team organized several meetings. They reviewed Dutch and international curricula and frameworks on digital literacy, informatics, etc., and consulted more than twenty experts. Following the standardized curriculum development procedure, the team formulated their vision on digital literacy in the context of Dutch situation yielding a document called characteristic, and then the core objectives constituting the curriculum were formulated. During this iterative development process, the team consulted the internal SLO monitoring team and the external advisory board consisting of representatives of stakeholder organizations involved or invested in digital literacy education. In March 2024, the digital literacy curriculum was finalized. It consists of nine core objectives grouped in three domains: (A) Practical knowledge and skills, (B) Designing and making, and (C) Interaction between digital, technology, digital, media, people and the society. This paper describes the curriculum development process and presents the resulting core objectives.
AB - So far, in the Netherlands there has been no compulsory education in digital literacy or informatics in primary or secondary education. In 2022, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science tasked the Netherlands Institute for Curriculum Development (SLO) to develop the curriculum (i.e., the core objectives) for digital literacy for primary and lower secondary education. SLO formed a team including elementary and lower secondary education teachers, education specialists and teacher educators, and SLO curriculum specialists. Over a course of fifteen months, this team organized several meetings. They reviewed Dutch and international curricula and frameworks on digital literacy, informatics, etc., and consulted more than twenty experts. Following the standardized curriculum development procedure, the team formulated their vision on digital literacy in the context of Dutch situation yielding a document called characteristic, and then the core objectives constituting the curriculum were formulated. During this iterative development process, the team consulted the internal SLO monitoring team and the external advisory board consisting of representatives of stakeholder organizations involved or invested in digital literacy education. In March 2024, the digital literacy curriculum was finalized. It consists of nine core objectives grouped in three domains: (A) Practical knowledge and skills, (B) Designing and making, and (C) Interaction between digital, technology, digital, media, people and the society. This paper describes the curriculum development process and presents the resulting core objectives.
KW - curriculum development
KW - Digital literacy
KW - informatics
KW - learning standards
KW - The Netherlands
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-73474-8_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-73474-8_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85207581366
SN - 9783031734731
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 30
EP - 43
BT - Informatics in Schools. Innovative Approaches to Computer Science Teaching and Learning - 17th International Conference on Informatics in Schools
A2 - Pluhár, Zsuzsa
A2 - Gaál, Bence
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 17th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2024
Y2 - 28 October 2024 through 30 October 2024
ER -