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02/12/2013
Digital Strategy For Schools Launches
The Minister for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock T.D., welcomed the launch of the public consultation phase in the development of a new digital strategy for schools.
Minister Sherlock said that the development of a new strategy provides an opportunity to facilitate important Departmental strategies including the National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among Children and Young People.
This strategy adopts a modern and comprehensive definition of literacy and acknowledges that this includes oral language and all forms of written and printed communication from handwriting to digital literacy.
Minister Sherlock also welcomed the contribution ICT will play in the new framework for Junior Cycle which outlines eight key skills required for successful learning by students across the curriculum and for learning beyond school. Literacy and numeracy, which includes digital literacy, are part of those key skills. The inclusion of technology as one of the subjects available in the new Junior Cycle Framework is also a welcome development.
He said: "The development of a digital strategy for schools affords us the opportunity for further consideration of the use of ICT in the teaching of STEM subjects."
(CD/JP)
Minister Sherlock said that the development of a new strategy provides an opportunity to facilitate important Departmental strategies including the National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among Children and Young People.
This strategy adopts a modern and comprehensive definition of literacy and acknowledges that this includes oral language and all forms of written and printed communication from handwriting to digital literacy.
Minister Sherlock also welcomed the contribution ICT will play in the new framework for Junior Cycle which outlines eight key skills required for successful learning by students across the curriculum and for learning beyond school. Literacy and numeracy, which includes digital literacy, are part of those key skills. The inclusion of technology as one of the subjects available in the new Junior Cycle Framework is also a welcome development.
He said: "The development of a digital strategy for schools affords us the opportunity for further consideration of the use of ICT in the teaching of STEM subjects."
(CD/JP)
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