K-8 Digital Literacy Curriculum in the Netherlands

Nataša Grgurina*, Jos Tolboom

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformatics in Schools. Innovative Approaches to Computer Science Teaching and Learning - 17th International Conference on Informatics in Schools
Subtitle of host publicationSituation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2024, Proceedings
EditorsZsuzsa Pluhár, Bence Gaál
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages30-43
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9783031734748
ISBN (Print)9783031734731
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
Event17th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2024 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 28-Oct-202430-Oct-2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume15228 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2024
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period28/10/202430/10/2024

Keywords

  • curriculum development
  • Digital literacy
  • informatics
  • learning standards
  • The Netherlands

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