Many countries around the world have now introduced Digital Technology concepts and
pedagogical practices to their primary school curricula to ensure students develop the …

The 2017 reform of the Swedish national curriculum requires that all compulsory school
mathematics and technology teachers integrate programming into their teaching. The new …

This paper reports a study of Swedish curriculum documents for compulsory school in order
to unfold how novel programming content is communicated to the main policy enactors, that …

Computational thinking (CT) is often regarded as providing a 'soft start'for later involvement
with artificial intelligence and, hence, as a crucial twenty-first century skill. The introduction of …

In recent years, many countries have revised their school policy documents to incorporate
digital competence, computational thinking and programming. This study examines and …

The recent shift in compulsory education from ICT-focused computing curricula to
informatics, digital literacy and computer science, has resulted in children being taught …

While computing has been (re) introduced into the basic education curricula in various
countries, its actual implementation appears to be inconsistent. There are schools in which …

The widespread establishment of computational thinking in school curricula requires
teachers to introduce children to programming already at primary school level. As this is a …

This paper introduces the concept of digital structural violence and examines the negative
role it could have in future learning systems. To address it, we propose a new …

In today's world, the ability to think computationally is essential. The skillset expected of a
computer scientist is no longer solely based on the old stereotype but also a crucial skill for …