Context

SchoolCoding was approached by one of your team members to supply information about our Digital Skills, Coding and Robotics lessons, and/or to offer a demonstration of our Digital Skills, Coding, and Robotics curriculum.

 

Credentials

SchoolCoding assisted the DBE, during the March school holidays (2019), with the proposed Digital Skills and Coding subject (to be made compulsory for all schools (Grades R to 9).

 

Curriculum

In a fast-paced developing world, we cannot afford that children get left behind. This is the main reason why the Minister of Education wants to ensure that these 21 Century skills are developed. Therefore, children must be taught digital literacy skills at primary school level.

 

What is meant by digital skills?

"The term ‘digital skills’ refers to a range of different abilities, many of which are not only ‘skills’ per se, but a combination of behaviours, expertise, know-how, work habits, character traits, dispositions, and critical understandings. These skills and competencies are interconnected and broadly complementary. They are also, in today’s technology-saturated communities, foundational to full participation in society and, as such, need to be developed and refined over time. Digital skills also include computational thinking, coding, 21st-century skills, innovation, and other soft skills." (UNESCO, 2017).