Share Paper: Authentic integration of Digital Literacy in education: development of a new curriculum and assessment tool

  1. Petra Fisser, SLO, National Institute for Curriculum Development, Netherlands
  2. Maaike Heitink, University of Twente, Netherlands
  3. Allard Strijker, SLO, National Institute for Curriculum Development, Netherlands

Abstract: The Netherlands started the development of a new curriculum framework for primary and secondary education in 2018. One of the new themes in this curriculum is Digital Literacy, which is defined as a combination of ICT skills, media literacy, information literacy and computational thinking. Together with the other subjects (Dutch, Arithmetic/mathematics, English/modern foreign languages, Citizenship, Exercise & Sport, Art & Culture, Human & Nature, Human & Society) Digital Literacy will be part of the new curriculum. A teacher design team developed a vision and elaborated this into eight themes. Based on these themes learning trajectories were designed. These learning trajectories ...