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In the Philippines, teaching computing is one of the favorite subject of our students, because they learn and apply basic algorithms and concepts at an early grades. Though it's challenging because I think our education is not yet totally ready in implementing online learning at school, yet we're on our way embracing changes in modern technology by incorporating ICT in facilitating lessons to our students.

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In Italy it seems the computing approach is changing. I can say that a lot of teachers are going towards a new idea of what we can do with technology: it's no more a subject but an instrument, a tool with which we let the students learn easily and with more enthusiasm

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In Greece computing has been developped lately because it is necessary in our every day activities.It is taught from the first grade of the primary school up to the last grade og the senior high school.Both theory and practise is taught and they learn a lot about the computer science ,the esafety and the dangers of the internet.AsI am a teacher of English I use computer to talk through skype with students of other countries.

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Hello. Firstly i must say that all my colleagues from Slovenia already wrote everything necesary about teaching computing in our country. From my expirience i must say that children should learn basic concept of coding as soon as they get in primary school because it will be a necessity in further education and everyday life. So basicly informatics should become one of main subjects in school and not an optional one.

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In Serbia, the informatics is only an elective subject in school or extracurricular activity. In my school we have 2 digital classrooms (one is with old slow computers) and one bad internet conection. Not enough for serious work.

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In Croatia, the informatics is still only an elective subject in school or extracurricular activity. For children there is a lot of interest but due to lack of conditions (insufficient number of computers) can not all children go to IT. I still do not understand why neither the announced new curriculum Informatics not introduced as a compulsory subject for all students. In my school I head extracurricular activities informatics and I'm very sorry that I am unable to include all students who would like more depend on the number of computers in schools.

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At my school they are just users.

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Education is delegated to each of the autonomous regions to decide about it. In Andalucia, they have carried out projects that have been delivered laptops to students, something like putting the cart before the horse. Also it has created a version of Ubuntu aimed at learning called Guadalinex.

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Vista de Actividades

Interfaz de Guadalinex Edu Next que muestra: un panel de favoritos personalizable, un selector de aplicaciones, es decir, una vista previa de aquellos directorios, documentos o aplicaciones que esté ejecutando el usuario y un panel de áreas de trabajo activas desde el que se visualizan los escritorios virtuales.

Centro de Software

El nuevo Centro de Software se presenta ante los usuarios y usuarias de los centros educativos con una estructura más nítida y simplificada pero se mantiene la categorización de las aplicaciones del mismo ámbito. El navegador web Chromium o el editor de imágenes Gimp están disponibles, listos para su instalación.

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Interfaz de Guadalinex Edu Next que muestra: un panel de favoritos personalizable, un selector de aplicaciones, es decir, una vista previa de aquellos directorios, documentos o aplicaciones que esté ejecutando el usuario y un panel de áreas de trabajo activas desde el que se visualizan los escritorios virtuales.

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In Portugal there´s no computing teaching in primary school. Only kids of the 7th/8th grade (12/14 years old) have ICT in their curriculum, including some time dedicated to programming (scratch, kodu,...).
Next year will begin a project pilot to teach programming to kids in the 3trd/4th grade. I´m hoping for good results.

By the way, I never worked with primary school kids, yet.

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In Greece, both types of primary education have subjects for Computing: "New Technologies & Computer Science"/2hours weekly, for all grades at all-day primary school, and "Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)"/1-2hours weekly, depending of the grade at primary school following a unified revised curriculum. These subjects, taught by teachers or secondary education teachers, include the general use of computers and the basic software but no coding. Some exceptions are only because of some teachers' initiatives.

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In Italy the situation is very diverse. There are advanced experience, others still in startup. For many do ICT means still teach using Windows Office programs. But something is changing. Many are trying to introduce the use of the tablet, the coding, robotics and, though few, are having good results. Unfortunately, it lacks a serious investment in training. The school level that experiences more remains the primary school, but there are excellent experiences in other grade levels also in kindergarten. The real problem is leaving their own little world and share experiences in a more functional and have major surgery to stimulate the process that has started.

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In Romania,very few schools are equipped with computer equipment so students have less access to computers. In live in a village and we’ve got a laboratory with fifteen computers, but not all works. I have a laptop and I bring it sometimes in my classroom for the lesson.

Of course, students know almost everything about how a computer works, because they have their own computers or tablets at home, and they learn using them every day.

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In Spain, we haven´t any specific subject to teach computing in primary schools (6-12 years) . In addition, there isn´t enough computers at schools nor appropiate internet conections. Students use computers to work with diferent programs or explore internet, not to create contents.

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I taught computing (14-19), now the hours are few so you can not devote time to this important activity.

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In my country children learn at primary level how to use computers in their main functions, they learn how to write texts, to draw, to use the e-mail and to surf the net to search for information. Computing curriculum is integrated, in fact it is used in an interdisciplinary way to perform a task that involves different subject. Unfortunately they do not learn basic code at this level, they work as users not as programmers. I always explore topics such safety, because it is crucial to highlight the importance to protect their own dates and above all to explain the importance protecting their identity in a virtual environment that is wider than what they can imagine.

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In the second cycle (5-8th grades) are studied in the framework of the elective course "Informatics and Computing" and partly as a module within the compulsory subjects "Technical and IT education.Part of the information contents that are studied in the compulsory subjects "Technical and IT education" is quite weak because of 16 hours per year.Then, in practice, these classes are often not implemented as envisaged, or not being realized at all, which depends on the competence of teachers. On the other hand, the essence of the case "Technical and IT education" is very specific in nature, contains many heterogeneous areas - from technical drawing, wood processing, construction, metallurgy to energy and transport and contains a lot of practical work in these areas, however, therefore the part that relates to IT facilities under-represented in comparison to today's demands of a modern information society.

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In Argentina, has introduced a programme called "Conectar Igualdad" (Connect equality) which consists of giving netbooks to secondary school students who belong to state-run schools. If they finish thei course of studies successfully they can keep those netbooks. Besides, the government launched a postgraduate course about Education and TIC. The idea is to give teachers the necessary tools to incorporate netbooks to their lessons.

Some private schools took the decision to buy some netbooks which can be booked by teachers to use with their students. Both schools where I work bought 25 netbooks so that students profit from them.

One of those schools started a pilot programme in which students bring their own devices to class, so now almost all students from secondary school ad 6th form primary bring their netbooks or tablets to school.

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IIn Greece, in primary schools pupils learn how to use office applications and are taught esafety rules. The last 2-3 years, a few teachers have started teaching some basic coding principles mainly using Scratch.

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In North Rhine Westphalia - the federal state of Germany I live - coding doesn't really exist in primary schools. This is really a pitty, as in my oppinion it is very important to learn the way of algoritmic thinking very early.
Even in secondary they start very late.

There are some good ideas and projects but all of them built and provided for secondary schools.

One of the main problem, even if this skills would be added to the curiculllum is the knowledge of teachers about - we have to g a long way ...

Indeed pupils learn how to use some programs, there is a project called "Medienpass". This is about competences / media literacy. Using IT is one part ...

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In Italy we have not a real project of teaching computing. Any teacher is required to use ICT both in primary and in secondary school, but no special skills are required , neither to teachers nor to students leaving the school. We think that young people can learn these subjects using them in the different works they do in all the disciplines they study.

Teachers are not prepared to teach coding or computing.

Recently private agencies such as energy companies or communications company started to propose in the classes some special games to introduce pupils to ICT.

The use of software is partially more relevant, but often limited to word processing.

Unfortunately we haven’t good technological equipments in our classes and so the pupils have to work at home.

Subjects, such as esafety, or cyber bullying, are developped apart, in dedicated lessons played by experts of these subjects.

Anyway ICT are often left to every teachers’ interests and sensibility.

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I do not work in primary schools, but I see that the basic problem is that students can choose informatics if they want. So when they come in high school (grammar school) some of them know so many things and some do not know anything. So, I think that we spend money without real results.

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We are adding new gadgets in the classroom. Tablets and robotics are now comming step by step to the schools but actually, we need to learn better how to adapts these technologies to the lessons.

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Computers are used in primary schools, as a tool and also students works with computers.

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In Italy there is a stand-by situation computing teaching; some parts are just taught in primary schools. All schools have a computer lab where pupils can go one hours a week and LIM (1-10) but there's not a teacher for computing area. A lot of teachers dont'have knowledges or skills for using or teaching computer. Students work with computer at primary level essentially for knowing hardware, using software, exploring topics on web, and watching video on LIM. I don't know if in some school students write basic code or explore some topics as esafety. In my classroom , according with the prevalent teacherwe use computer for Flipped Classroom and let students use software; but I would like to introduce

coding.

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In Scotland, computing as 'stand-alone lessons' is usually called ICT and comes under the heading 'Technologies' in our curriculum.Our curriculum covers students aged 3-18.  I feel the curriculum mainly focuses on digital literacy and using software to create content. My local area is looking into creating a set of learning outcomes for students to meet at each stage.

In recent years, there has been a big push for teachers to integrate the use of technology such as computers, tablets, mobile devices etc into all areas of the curriculum.

Schools are encouraged to have an Esafety policy that sets expectations for students and is shared with parents.

I teach a class of 5-6 year olds and last month I delivered a few lessons on logging into a computer and the use of safe passwords. I have also used Ipads with my students for different tasks. A lot of my students have experience of using technology at home so I try to build on these skills in the classroom.
However, the technology that the school has and the way that ICT is taught/used for learning varies between local authorities.

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In Poland, at the age of six, children begin their IT education in the form of so called ”informatics activities” On top of that, a separate curricular subject – informatics – starts in Year 4 (10 years of age) in a series of at least one-hour-a-week sessions.

The curriculum focuses mostly on teaching the use of software, such as Paint, Word, PowerPoint or Excel, albeit at a very elementary level. It is therefore, not surprising there is only a small fraction of Poland’s high school pupils that take IT as one of their exam subjects at the ‘Matura’ level.

It is often the limited availability of computers in the classroom, or the lack of time and resources to teach IT to smaller groups of students. At my school, for instance, no student was taught coding. We do however, intend to change this by entering our school to the “Masters of Coding” project.

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Students learn computing at primary at home by discovery through games. In school curricula does not provide this. Some of the most passionate teachers can teach students basic concepts.

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In my country, as other colleagues have already stated, the situation of teaching computing is rather heterogeneous. There are schools that a specialized computing teacher teaches pupils from 1st grade and there are schools that they don't have a properly equiped computer lab. In my school the situation is this:

We have a computer lab of 12 PCs, internet access, 5 laptops, 2 projectors but we don't have ann IT teacher and only 4 out of 14 teachers use them.

As the head teacher of the school I have made efforts to persuade everyone to try intergrade computing in their lesson plans but since they lack in knowledge they are afraid to take the risk. So one of my intentions is to find a way to train them in using computers for developing our students' skills in this field.

As this is the situation very few students learn to use software at our school, none have learnt to write basic code but we often discuss with them esafety issues since we know they use their computers at home!!!

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In Romania,very few schools are equipped with computer equipment so students have less access to computers.However, they acquire some computer skills, using their home computers.

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In my Country students learn to use office sowtwares and basic photo editing. We have an open learning programme so we can theach them as their levels. For two years they have started to work on Codec.org and scratch, too.

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Computer in your country

the school where I am the classroom is equipped by a ompuutador . in some there is the interactive whiteboard.
in the school library there 12 computer which allows students to develop their work. the PC are all connected to the internet and has updated these programs so that students can develop their school work quickly and creatively.

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In my Country we have heterogeneous situations. We have rich schools with many resources e others that haven't got necessary things. The schools that I know have computer labs in terrible conditions. Old personal computers and untrained teachers .Computing is not considered a real subject in our school programs. Pupils learn to use basic softwares like writing editor and drawing but they are so far away to write basic code. In my school we have a computer lab where computers don't work, so in my school we don't teach computing. In many classrooms we have an interactive multimedia whiteboard but isn't enough for pupils to do experience. There are so many softwares that would be good to deepen school subjects and it is a shame to not have the resources to use them. In art, for example, they could create their paintings with softwares like Microsoft "Paint".

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In Turkey programming is not a compolsory component of the primary school curriculum.

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In Italy there isn't a homogeneous situation between schools. Some (very few) have modern learning environments characterized by lots of devices, connection and innovative methods. In the remaining schools there are obsolete devices, no connection or problematic connection and so on. Consequently didactics can be the same. Few schools use in the daily routine computers, most part just some times during the week or the month. This year we started to know and to speak about CODE but the great most part of italian teacher (included me) aren't enough skilled to teach it.

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I am not a teacher so my description is only about schools I know, my children and childrens'friends.

Computing teaching is very poor in France. My eldest is 13 and learnt in primary school all about computing vocabulary and use of Word. She learnt by herself the use of Powerpoint for school-related tasks.

My primary school's son didn't do that much and will finish CM1 soon (4th grade - 10 year-old).

For what I know, the school has some computers pupils can use, in a small group. Only one teacher is dedicated to computing teaching.

We should give computer teaching a priority but no more than foreign languages or arts. A big improvement would be new computers and workshops for all primary school pupils interested during lunch break for example. Teachers could also develop three projects during the school year around computers to reinforce team work, problem solving and perseverance.

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In Norway computer litteracy is considered as part of the basic skills the pupils should learn throughout the different subjects they have in school. LKK (Lær Kidsa Koding) has also started focusing on getting coding in schools with a "hour of code" that they offer for teachers and primary/secondary school pupils.
Still it seems like many teachers struggle to keep up with the curriculum and to implement the required skills described in the curriculum when it comes to computer litteracy. And it seems hard to manage enough teacher training to get enough of the staff up to the level one would want them to have to meet this goal.

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We have no compulsory subject connected with computing, but some changes are expected. Therefore the lack of digital competences is inevitable. It is possible on some schools to take computing as optional subject in 4th, 5th and 6th class and we are fighting vs cancellation. (Learning writing and formatting texts, making presentations as comics, importance of cooperative learning, programing, safety, about communicating …) Computing is optional in 7th, 8th and 9th class but not many students takes those classes. There is also the idea to implement some digital competences into other subjects but I don’t believe it’s working.

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Lacramioara, Romania

In Romania, like in Lithuania, the computing curriculum is from 5th grade. In our schools we have computers and teachers use them in their work. I use computer in my lessons to teach different subjects – Romanian language, English, Mathematics, Science, Arts and crafts etc. I explore different topics about safety on Internet but as extracurricular activity – Safer Internet Day.

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Computing in Kenya

I work in an international school here ICT has been taught for ages. There is a mixture of ICT, Digital literacy and programming taught at different stages of learning. The syllabus is ICT with very little emphasis on Computer science. With the introduction of computing, there is a shift and teachers are gearing up to teaching computer science content across all key stages.

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In Lithuania the computing curriculum is from 5th grade.

In some schools primary teachers can integrate some computing themes in lessons (games to learn math and etc.).

I teach my students (age 8-9) how to use browsers for searching information.

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In my country the situation of computing teaching depends on the teacher's skills and on the school's resources.

In general pupils use the PC to do research supervised by their teachers and learn office software. I don't know if there is someone who is able to teach basis codes to children. I would like to do it because I think it would be very useful and interesting but I have not got the right competences.

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In Brazil, there are few initiatives of programing classes in primary or secondary schools, and most is developed as extracurricular activity.
But in Portugal, where I am live now, the Ministry of Education and Science just launched a pilot project for teaching programing with Kodu and Scratch in schools.
This is the link for the project's site: http://programacao1ceb.dge.mec.pt/apresentacao/

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1st task

Few years ago the primary school curriculum was upgraded and digital literacy was implemented in every curriculum of every subject. It depends on teacher how much of digital competences are developed in class. At my school not much. Most of digital competences are taught by me in 4th and 7th class.

In 4th class we have mandatory subject with computer science in curriculum. The students are taught how computers are assembled, computer parts, how to use computer to store files, edit them, how to search information on websites, how to use mind mapping programs, how to edit text in word processors, how to make short presentations and how to make simple programs.

In 7th class we also have mandatory activities where the students learn how to use text editors, how to search information on websites, we talk about copyright, data protection, safe working, e-safety and cyber-bullying, how to use spreadsheets programs and how to make presentations with different presentation software and how to present.

As other teacher from Slovenia wrote now we have new optional subject in 4th class (in next year in 5th and in 2 years in 6th class) with computer science in curriculum. There is also another optional subject in 7th, 8th and 9th class where the students learn to use text editor, work with multimedia and make webpages. In that curriculum is also an option of coding and I introduce programming to the students.

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Since many years our Ministry organizes courses to improve the computer
knowledges of our teachers, but I think that the results are insufficient and the
most important reasons of this situation are:
1. in our school there are very few and old tools and schools don't have money
enough to buy them;
2. many of this courses have a theoretical approach and they don't suggest to the
teacher how to use tools in their everyday job;
3. Many teachers, specially the oldest teachers are afraid of causing damage to  the
tools;
4. We don't have a technician in every school.
So...we have a long way to go!

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Within the last two years or so the primary school curriculum was upgraded and ICT is now to be integrated into the other subject areas. Prevously it was not in the curriculum. There is no thrust to teach computing as a stand alone subject at the primary school level. Thus coding, the use of software and esafety are not done.

Many of our primary schools are equipped with computer labs and high speed internet. Prior to the implementation of the new curriculum some schools taught computer basics such as the parts of the computer, how to use the mouse, how to use a word processor etc.

Many students are familiar with and have used various devices such as laptops, tablets , smartphones etc. They have used such for surfing, playing games and watching movies.

I teach a grade one class and I try to incorporate ICT's into my teaching as much as I can. I expose my students to online learning games and youtube videos to enhance their learning experiences.

Recently the government announced plans to give each priamry school student a laptop or tablet or ipad. This is a step in the right direction as all the students will have their own devices so that they can accelerate their general learning but especially in ICT.

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I am a primary teacher in Italy. In my school teachers are interested on computing and so our children learn basic coding with Pro-bot (in  the first and second class), with scratch ( in the third and fourth class) and with Lego Nxt ( in the fifth class).

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In my country, until this year there isn't a computing teaching in primary level schools.

In the next year, there will be an experimental educational program that will teach students from the ages 8 to 9 how to coding. During April all the School Groups with primary levels may apply for the program (if they have resources).

In the primary level schools near me, working with computers is very unusual. The only tasks that the kids learn how to do is searching on the WEB. But I think that all the students at those ages play a lot of games on computers/ tablets/ mobiles, but on their own. So, most of the kids don't know what is coding.

Every year, in the Safety Internet Week my School Group promotes some activities for students to reflect on that issue.

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In Romania the computing curriculum focuses on digital literacy. They play on the computer, write, draw. Many of them know how to use Facebook. But they have no knowledge of software and no carries computer lessons.

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In our country there is no computer training in primary grades. It is included in the curriculum from grade 5. Many schools are equipped with computers, Internet, tablets and projectors. In our school there are three computer rooms, where training takes place, some teachers have tablets, and some children have smartphones. However, children love to play computer games during the breaks and can use the Internet. In our current eTwinning project named QR or be Unique we will try to code, scan and program.

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Hello,

My name is Jani and I come from Slovenia. Computing classes in Slovenia are optional to students. Students can pick computing in 4th, 7th, 8th and in 9th grade. In the future schools will also offer computing in 5th and in 6th grade.

Students are learing about computer hardware and software. They are also learning to code in Scratch, learing about Office programs and making websites.

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I have been teaching computing in primary school since 1994. First there was only teaching how to use a computer. As Radovan said, now students can choose computing subject in 4th, 5th 7th, 8th and 9th year of primary school.

This year only 10% of pupils chose computing in 4th class. In optional subjects in 7th, 8th and 9th class the students can learn to use MS Office, work with multimedia and make webpages. Teaching to write a code is up to the teacher who teaches computing.

Computing is unfortunately only optional subject. Some pupils don’t necessary participate in the class for the whole term.

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In Italy , Campania has a laboratotio EVERY school with about 20 pc used in Schedules established with teachers ready and capable of using the programming for carrying out educational projects . In EVERY class A LIM , but IS rarely used . Teachers do not have expertise in the use and therefore are not in degree to use it : their students . " Encoding " and a " mysterious Word for all teachers . I am happy to attend This course to be able to Understand What exactly Trafficking and howto improve my teaching with It . I hope to be able to explain it .

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Unfortunately, there is not financial support in my country to make teachers and learners use computers during each course of lectures. Students know how a computer works and they use it in an easy way. It will be more interesting for learners and teachers to use computers several times.

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In the US,  there is no strict national curriculum, it's mainly an outline. The real decisions about what will and will not be included are determined at the state level. I will say that more and more public schools and private schools have added coding, robotics and digital literacy into their curriculum. Organizations like code.org have spread computer science education all over the country.

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In Portugal we are doing the first steps to introduce coding at primary school.

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Hello,

I'm from Slovenia, but I'm not a teacher yet. This year I'm going to finish my education process on the Faculty of Natural Sciencec and Mathematics. Then I will be competent enough to go to High Schools for some more practice.

For my diploma thesis I'm exploring how to teach students in 4th grade of Primary school computing concepts without computer. I wrote 3 activities: for program tracking, loop and if statement. I think that students should do more of these activities, because that would enable them to learn computing concepts without problems. I don't support teaching Word, Excel and Power Point, but we must do it, because our curiculum requires it. I'm very happy we now have Computing in 4th grade, so we can teach them how to code (in Scratch). I'm following one grade and I can see a big progress from beginning till now. Students are more independent and they can already solve some problems, think about them and the ways how to start solving them . This is very important, because in our lives there will always be problems and if we don't know how to start solving them and how to break them in small problems we are losing more time than it is necessary. This is a great start for students to learn how to solve problems, think logical and through steps find solutions.

When I become a teacher I won't only teach how to use a program, but how to solve something with that program. The software should facilitate our activites.

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In Portugal Computing classe in primary scholls are extracurricular classes and it not in every schools.

In private school they work with computers and tablets.

In the next year in the public school starts pilot program to teach coding in the last year of primary school.

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In the past five years Macedonian classrooms have seen many changes. An additional year of mandatory education; “interactive” teaching in place of the rote learning of the past; new textbooks; implementing the project "computer for every pupil" – it all foretold a radical transformation of the school system. The ministry of education now plans to distribute 300,000 tablet computers to students in 2015 and says parents will be responsible for them.

Digitizing classrooms is seen as crucial to reforming outdated teaching methods. The Education Development Bureau introduced major curriculum changes and new teaching methods: such as for instance, requirement, computers to be used for 30 percent of class time so the basic digital literacy, using internet, search the web, using text editors and creating presentations, is implemented in every curriculum of every subject in the primary school from 2nd to 9th grade.

The curriculum of the 6th, 7th and 8th (11,12, 13 years old) involves (2 hours per week) basic of computer science (hardware, computer networks), information technology ( web 2.0 tools as part of the project bassed learning) and digital literacy (using office software, e-mail, presentation software, software for creating pictures and video, using web browsers and search engines)

Coding is an optional subject in 8th grade (13 years old).

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In our country we are discussing computing more and more. Some teachers have on their own initiative started to work with computing in their classrooms but over all we do not work with it. I am working in the third biggest city in Sweden and in my departement we have decided to really emphasize computing and me and my two colleagues are now educating teachers all over the city. We are starting computing i classes along with the teachers as a kind of “kick-off” and acts as support for the teacher. We are not only hoping but are also working for Sweden to do like England and Finland and embed it in our curriculum.

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In Portugal Computing classe in primary scholls are extracurricular classes and it not in every schools.

In private school they work with computers and tablets.

In the next year in the public school starts pilot program to teach coding in the last year of primary school.

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In Slovenia there is no compulsory subject connected with computing although there is digital literacy implemented in every curriculum of every subject. The question is how much the teacher of all subjects (math, chemistry, mother tongue, sport, …) develop digital competencies of the students. By my opinion not much, because I knew students when they leave primary school in Slovenia (by the age of 15) and the majority were not digital competent at all.

Now we have new optional subject in 4th, 5th and 6th class (age 10, 11, 12) with CS content in curriculum. This year only 10% of pupils choose this subject. There is also another optional subject in 7th, 8th and 9th class where the students learn to use MS Office, work with multimedia and make webpages. In that curriculum is also an option of coding and some teachers introduce programming to the students.

Some schools offer also some after-school activities where the students learn how to code, the number of such students is not very high.

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In my country, at primary level the only part of computing that is developed is digital literacy (since the curriculum establishes 0-1 hours of computer studying/week, it is up to each school to decide if teaching computing or not - at primary level). Usually, primary students have elective classes on this topic (Games and PC). Unfortunately, they don`t learn how to use software. Anyway, since many primary school students already have Facebook or other site accounts, it is important to teach them about esafety. Therefore, many teachers run activities on this topic (ex. Safer Internet Day)

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In our primary school (6 - 10 years), in Mestre, near Venice, each class can go to the computer lab only once a week. We have  classes of 20- 26 children but there are 9 old PC, and often they don’t work. We need, however, to split the class in two groups and have two teachers. Not having. enough working computers is, perhaps, an opportunity for the children to work in pairs and helping each others.

Finally this year  we have got a Promethean ActivBoard, which it is used by all the classes that wish to, according to a weekly schedule. Unfortunately most teachers do not have computer skills and use the interactive whiteboard only to watch video on Internet. Anyway, it is a beginning.

Do students work with computers at primary level?

First year pupils use computers in the lab, we have only a computer lab where the internet connection works badly and is very slow. So they can work only with software offline.

Do they learn how to use software?

Pupils have learned to write (Libre Office- Writer),draw (Paint) and, in the final year classes are learning to make simple presentations with Impress. But with Impress it’s difficult to include audioand video files…..

Do they already write basic code?

In my school "coding" is a “mysterious word for all the teachers. I’m glad to attend this course so I can understand what exactly it is and howto improve my teaching with it. I hope I will be able to explain it also to mycollegues.

Identify anything that you do in your school that you think might link to computing

For several years pupils in my school have made their own books  writing and drawing by themselves, we didn’t buy the ministerial student's book, so we could use the money to buy books for reading and for the research. I think it was a good way for building their own knowledge and exploring topics step by step.

In this last year pupils of final classes edited together their book about Odissea. Theyhave read together some parts, they have written personal texts on the characters, have represented and dramatized scenes, created masks of  Polyphemus, they have entered drawings and stories for a small presentation with Impress. Step by step they have made their adventures of Ulysses.

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In our primary school (6 - 10 years), in Mestre, near Venice, each class can go to the computer lab only once a week. We have  classes of 20- 26 children but there are 9 old PC, and often they don’t work. We need, however, to split the class in two groups and have two teachers. Not having enough working computers is, perhaps, an opportunity for the children to work in pairs and helping each others.

Finally this year  we have got a Promethean ActivBoard, which it is used by all the classes that wish to, according to a weekly schedule. Unfortunately most teachers do not have computer skills and use the interactive whiteboard only to watch video on Internet. Anyway, it is a beginning.

Do students work with computers at primary level?

First year pupils use computers in the lab, we have only a computer lab where the internet connection works badly and is very slow. So they can work only with software offline.

Do they learn how to use software?

Pupils have learned to write (Libre Office- Writer),draw (Paint) and, in the final year classes are learning to make simple presentations with Impress. But with Impress it’s difficult to include audioand video files…..

Do they already write basic code?

Also In my school "coding" is a mysterious word for all the teachers. I’m glad to attend this course so I can understand what exactly it is and howto improve my teaching with it. I hope I will be able to explain it also to my collegues.

Identify anything that you do in your school that you think might link to computing

For several years pupils, in my school, have made their own books  writing and drawing by themselves, we didn’t buy the ministerial student's book, so we could use the money to buy books for reading and for the research. I think it was a good way for building their own knowledge and exploring topics step by step.

In this last year pupils of final classes edited together their book about Odissea. Theyhave read together some parts, they have written personal texts on the characters, have represented and dramatized scenes, created masks of  Polyphemus, they have entered drawings and stories for a small presentation with Impress. Step by step they have made their adventures of Ulysses.

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The Norwegian curriculum is focused on learning the students about Information Technology. It's listed as one of the five basic skills in Norwegian education beside reading, writing, speaking and counting.

Though it's listed as one of the five basic skills, most teachers do not understand what the students need to learn or how they are supposed to teach it.

Focus often seems to be teaching the students how to search the web, use Word and create presentation in Powerpoint.

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In Croatia students can choose ICT as an optional subject in the 5th class at the age of eleven.

They have 2 lessons per week and get familiar with Microsoft Office, sending e-mails, some

useful Web 2.0 tools,...

There is growing understanding about a necessity to present computing in the early stage.

At some schools there are optional ICT groups for younger students, even at the age of seven and then they usually start with SCRATCH junior. Esafety is obligatory topic, and not just reserved for ICT lessons, but also included in other subjects. In our school all 7th and 8th graders use Moodle for Physics and Maths.

We don't have tablets at school (Students are sometimes asked to bring their own devices), but we can use an ICT classroom with more then 20 computers and a smartboard. Also, there is at least one computer in each classroom connected to the internet. Our teachers are working with e-register for last two years.

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Actually, the official curriculum in computing in Bulgaria starts at low secondary school – age 11 – 12.

At the primary school there are voluntary classes in ICT where the teacher choose topics and direction of courses. Usually at the beginning the start with developing digital literacy by creating pictures, presentations and text documents. Some of the teachers are oriented to the use of internet tools for collaborative work – for example writing/illustrating a common fairy tale. They stress on the creativity, collaborative work and some issues of safety, authority, etc.

Just a small number of teachers in the massive schools start programming (usually at the last grade) using Scratch or Lego robots.

There are also specialized training groups in programming, associated with some of the mathematical schools or business companies, where the student are prepared for the Olympiads in informatics. They use C++ language to write programs corresponding to the national (based on the international requirements) curricula for the competitions. The starting grade is 2-nd (7-8 years old students).

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Even the youngest students work with computers and tablets. Most schools haven't computers for every student, but children quickly learn new technologies.

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In my country, at primary level the only part of computing that is developed is digital literacy (since the curriculum establishes 0-1 hours of computer studying/week, it is up to each school to decide if teaching computing or not - at primary level). Usually, primary students have elective classes on this topic (Games and PC). Unfortunately, they don`t learn how to use software. Anyway, since many primary school students already have Facebook or other site accounts, it is important to teach them about esafety. Therefore, many teachers run activities on this topic (ex. Safer Internet Day)

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In Italy since 2014 it has started an experimental project by the Ministry of Education. However, many schools are in a special situation with regard to technical equipment, since the country is for the economic crisis for the new government policy is going through a very difficult time. Therefore nationally we are witnessing a strong differentiation between the different schools. There are schools that have undertaken the experience of coding other than a lack of suitable instruments you have been prevented from doing so. Across the country, however, they are spreading initiatives by private associations in the this sector.

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In Ireland there isn’t a specific subject called computing or IT/ICT with its own allotted time on the curriculum. Instead what is classed in the curriculum documents as ‘information and communication technologies’ is covered as an approach or methodology in all primary school subjects. The form in which computing takes in these subjects varies. Computing can be the basis for an approach to teaching or it can be a tool to record and distribute information which has been gathered on a topic or from an investigation.

I believe that some children would learn how to use some basic software in primary school. Because of the age I teach myself it doesn’t apply very much  to my pupils at the moment.

The extent to which students would work with computers at primary would vary significantly according to how well-resourced the school is in term of equipment. Many school now have tablets which students use and there continues to be discussion about the pros and cons of BYOD (bring your own device). Every classroom (or at least all the classrooms that I’m aware of!) would have at least a teaching computer for the teacher (though obviously pupils may well use it too) a digital projector, an interactive whiteboard and a visualiser.

Pupils do not learn to write basic code within school teaching hours. However there is a strong, and ever-growing, nationwide presence of coding clubs which many pupils from lower primary age upwards attend in evenings and weekends.

I’m in the lower junior section of the school at the moment and we don’t cover e-safety at that level specifically though we do cover all aspects of general personal safety. However, it is covered in the senior end of the school, usually in conjunction with events such as Safer Internet Day and Anti-Bullying initiatives.

In my school I have developed my own website for my class. It is mainly a place for us to share with parents some of the activities we complete in class, as well as being a place to put up some information which I believe will help the education process continue at home.  It also gives me a chance to communicate directly with parents and they can decide when and where they want to engage with this communication.

I use several web-based tools on a daily basis to make the classroom an interesting and interactive place for my learners.

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In Poland the computing curriculum in primary schools focuses mostly on digital literacy. Children begin learning how to use computers at the age of 6. Lately, coding becomes more and more popular. In 2013/2014 about 40 schools in Poland took part in a pilot programme called "Masters of Coding" founded by Samsung. I was one of the teachers who were trained in using Scratch. Then we taught Scratch to our students as extra-curricular classes.

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Ustaliliście zasady korzystania z technologii w Waszym domu, ale nie zawsze są one przestrzegane? Czasem sami - wbrew własnym postanowieniom - włączacie dziecku bajkę na tablecie, gdyż musicie je czymś zająć, by chwilę popracować? Teoria i praktyka często się rozmijają. Ważne, by zasady były ustalane przez Was wspólnie, aby dotyczyły całej rodziny oraz dawały możliwość reagowania w sytuacjach wyjątkowych.

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In Slovenia studying informatics is optional for the primary school students. I think it should be a normal curriculum subject because many kids lack the essential computer knowledge (like sending an email with an attachment).

Unfortunately not all the schools have good equipment (we have almost all the computers that are at least 8 years old). We can only dream about tablet computers and stuff like that.

This year we started to teach coding with 9 year old kids (in Scratch) and they like it.

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In my country students work with computers at private school at primary level. On the other hand, we haven't got technical equipment at government school. At private schools, they also learn how to use software and how to blog but they don't write basic code. We explore digital citizenship, esafety, bullying.

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Teaching computing is not a separate subject in the Swedish curriculum. It is up to the individual school or teacher to introduce computing at the primary level. There is however a growing understanding of the importance of teaching computational skills and there are some initiatives taken by individuals teachers and organizations to promote teaching computing in schools. Digital tools are qiute common in primary schools. The tablet has been a great success and are replacing or complementing the traditional computer for everyday day use.

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In Portugal Computing classes in primary schools are extracurricular classes and for that reason only a few schools give it for free.

The targets to accomplish is to learn how to user office software and do not includes write basic code and I always accomplish that and try to explore topics such as esafety with them.

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In the Swedish curriculum there is nothing about Computer Science, but the student are to use digital equipment’s. Some school do teach computing, but many school lack the adequate equipment. Many primary schools use tablets or computers in “read to write” training. The topic “how to behave on the internet” is frequently discussed.

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In Italian Primary school, children learn Computer Science. They can use computers and they learn how to use software. At school we use computer to do projects and we use Word, Power Point. We don't teach about computing. in the last school year the Ministry of Public Education started a programme about computing. I don't really exactly know how it works but I hope to start to see it very soon.

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In Basque Country our government set up a project called "Eskola 2.0"  5 years ago. It consisted of  providing laptops for each student and digital boards with projectors in all the classrooms.

Unfortunally this project ran only for 4 years and there has not been a sequenced training plan for teachers, so some teachers' technological skills are very poor.

Schools haven't got the economical support anymore and some of them can't afford to invest in technology. Our students start learning computer studies as a subject at the age of 12. At Primary we use computers to do projects (word documents, power points and digital tools) or  for reinforcement activities...

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In Primary schools in Italy, computer science is taught by the class teacher and depends on her7his ability and personal interest.

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I don't actually know the situation here as I don' t work in a Primary School. I do know schools do have good access to computers in the classroom and sometimes in dedicated ICT rooms.  I believe that computers are mostly used to support the curriculum rather than to teach computing itself.  Some teachers are very confident with computing and can easily integrate it within all subjects areas but many aren't as confident as use it as a support to subject areas.

I work with children with disabilities and those in mainstream education have a laptop or Ipad as a learning support in the classroom. The use is twofold, firstly as a interactive learning tool to support the learning and secondly as a writing and communication tool.  My job currently is to assist in keyboard skills and start to introduce assistive technology.

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In Portugal, at secondary level, some schools have Computer Science Clubs where they explore coding, most of the times Robotics and some programming languages. However, all these initiative are not mandatory and they are implemented because of "passionate" teachers who want to make the difference and prepare students for the real world. None of these projects are coordinated by a national program. On the other hand, next year, we will have a national initiative focuse on coding for primary school students (Year 3 and 4). It's an ambitious program and I'll be part of it as a Teacher Trainer for more than 700 teachers who want to start coding with their young pupils. I believe that we are watching a turning point on the use of CS in our country.

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In Portugal, although some iniciatives from the goverment in the last years, there isn´t, yet, a real effort to focus on the teaching of information technology and computing in public education. In the most part, schools between the 5th and 8th grade, have PC´s, WiFi access, Internet broaband, some tablets, ICT coordinators and ICT labs.
Overall, students have two years of ICT (7th and 8th grade) but in the rest of the curricula it´s not mandatory. They learn how to work with productivity software and e-safety but no coding or programing.
On the other hand, even with fewer resources, our school libraries have been teaching digital literacy and e-safety for a couple of years.
In my opinion, Portugal lacks of a continuity in the political decisions regarding this maters.Never the less, for the next school year, 2015/2016,in some schools will be held a new project on computing in primary school.

Let´s us hope that all goes well.

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In Portugal there are ICT classes on the 7th and 8th grade. these classes involve computer science, technology Formation, and also a bit of digital literacy

In some schools, there are classes in secondary education with courses on programming , multimedia and other involving computing.

From next year there will be programming classes in primary schools.

students work with computers at primary level, they use computers and interactive whiteboards.

There are also learning robotics clubs and programming in some portuguese schools

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All schools are reasonably well equipped with computers but level of use depends greatly on individual teachers. ICT is to be woven into the curriculum which can be a little difficult if teacher is not very confident in computer use. Pupils are taught about Internet safety esp when using social media outside of school.

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In Turkey, IT lessons used to be optional. They focused mostly on office programs. Since 2013 the name of the lesson was changed to “IT and Coding” and it became obligatory for grades 5 and 6, two lessons a week. There’s a frame curriculum to follow but schools can decide which areas they teach each year. I am not sure how successful this program has been, because a lot of state’s schools haven’t got the techninal equipment. Also, there’s no proper age-based teaching material for subjects like algorithms and coding. The lessons are given by computer teachers.

My primary school is a private school and we have got very good facilities. Besides, we started implementing tablets to the lessons 2014. Our IT lessons start grade 3 and finish grade 6. We start with MS office programs, including Excel, continue with search engines, e-safety, cyberbullying, digital citizenship, Google Drive. Since 2013 we are joining Hour of Code week with all the levels. I have taught programmning with Scratch for grades 5 and 6 for two years, but not very structured. About three weeks ago I started to teach algorithms for the 3rd graders and I am using the fantastic material from computingatschool.org.uk and barefootcas.org.uk
My school participates FLL, First Lego League project. I work with a small group of students who build robots and program them to perform tasks.

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Coding is not part of our curriculum, but is up to teachers or schools to focus on. Computering is part of all subjects and is used a Tool . There for it's mostly up to each inderviduel teacher how much they will use computers. All teachers get courses.

The level of how much and the qualification of the teachers are very different so it varies very much from school to school and teacher to teachr how much computers is used.

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Many children in our compulsory school has access to both computers and iPads. The ICT competence differ between schools and within schools. At my school (Grade 4-9, age 10-15 years) we use iPads almost every day. All students get their own iPad when they start Grade 6. We use the iPad for shared documents, school tasks, sending in homework, evaluating forms, movies, reading, internet searching and many other things. The students are used to the iPad but sometimes they surprise me when they say that they do not know how to send me an e-mail... Snapchat has changed their communication skill...

I started to teach programming with apps in August 2014 for Grade 4-6. It is fun and challenging because I am not educated to do this but I think it is very important that young learners will get digital literacy to be producers instead of consumers when they grow up.

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In our country teaching computers in Primary School (age 6 – 14) is optional. Some small schools doesn't offer that option, but majority does. In our school children in 4th grade teaching how to code (using Scratch) and then later on in 7th, 8th and 9th grade using software (all that is graded). From 1-3th grade and in 5th and 6th grade in our school children has possibility to atend computer course (one hour a week or one hour every twoo weeks). It's not special curriculum for the course, but most schools offers that.

In curriculum of other subjects are few hours of Digital Literacy. Our school has one computer room with 16 computers and each class has an interactive Whiteboard and one leptop.

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Till now, we have had computer lessons at the end of primary school (12-14 years old students). They are learning how to use office, powerpoint, multimedia and how to build an easy webpage. This year we started with programing with 9 years old students. They are programing with SCRATCH. They really enjoy coding.

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Like Gunita already said, pupils learn subject „Computer Science” (basics in Computer Science, Office programms etc ) in classes 5 – 7 ( 1 lesson per week), but not as separate subject in primary level.

In my school teachers often use tablets for special needs pupils and we also have several whiteboards in the classrooms.

Primary level pupils use computers in geography, language, history, science etc. lessons. How wide we do it depends on teacher and technical possibilities at school.

In my school students can attend extra lessons to learn how to use different software  or even computer coding. This year I tried with my Grade 6 pupils coding

http://studio.code.org/

As teacher of Informatics I teach students how to use Office programms, different ICT tools, like video, animations, .... Of course we talk and learn about e-safety.

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1.1 Computing

In  our country primary schools do not have all ICT lessons. At schools where ICT is compulsory, it is taught from the 1st grade to the 6th grade, one hour a week. These schools are equipped with computer labs.

In myschool pupils learn to use hardware of office software, use of web browser and internet search engines, mind maps, engine of painting, educational games. Also they learn the logo language, scratch and educational robotics. Recently we had a new computer room and interactive whiteboard in the classroom. Of course we learn  e- safety .

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In my country there are two types of primary schools.

1. The classical curriculum schools which have no ICT lessons or a specialized ICT teacher, thus computers are integrated into the other subjects (maths, language etc) according to teachers’ willing, methods and skills.

2. The reform curriculum schools where students are taught ICT from a specialized teacher from the age of six until the age of twelve. In those schools, kids have lessons of computer science in order to recognize the basic computer components and how they function. Furthermore, they have lessons of digital literacy ,in which they learn to use software such as office suite, paint, search engines etc. also they have some lessons on programming; especially in logo language and they discuss issues about e-safety.

My school belongs to the classical curriculum schools. For that reason my colleagues and I use the pc lab and the interactive whiteboards mainly as a presentation tools or to enrich our teaching methods with educational computer games, internet browsingetc. Additionally as we recognize that our pupils (especially from the age of ten) use the internet, mobile phones and participate in social media we discuss issues concerning e-safety, data protecting, and cyber bulling.

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In my school computer learning is at begining. I have a laptop and I try to insert technology in lessons. My pupils are in the first grade. Not all my kids have tablets, but all of them have a computer at home.In the classroom we work with my laptop, specially in eTwinning projects. I give them like homework to find information about things and they work on the computers.

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In Croatia teach computer science from the fifth class of Primary School, as optional subject and have name  Informatics. Students learn two hour per week in each class and learn to use Word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, how to code and multimedia. They know used the internet,  search engines and create a website. Students learn and the main components of the hardware.