Learning goals

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The supported learning goals are identified by mapping the product against the selected reference curriculum and soft skills definitions most relevant for the 21st century.

• Identify and solve their own design problems and understand how to reformulate problems given to them
• Develop and apply their analytic, problem-solving, design, and computational thinking skills.
• Use two or more programming languages, at least one of which is textual, to solve a variety of computational problems.
• Undertake creative projects that involve selecting, using, and combining multiple applications, preferably across a range of devices.
• Understand the hardware and software components that make up computer systems.
• Understand simple Boolean logic and some of its uses in circuits and programming.
• Understand several key algorithms that reflect computational thinking.
• Understand how numbers can be represented in binary, and be able to carry out simple operations on binary numbers.
• Understand how data of various types can be represented and manipulated digitally, in the form of binary digits.
• Understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation.
Learn to evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems.
Design and develop modular programs that use procedures or functions.
Be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.
Learn to analyse problems in computational terms
Use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs.
Use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output.
Design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts.
Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs.
Create and debug simple programs.
Understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions.
Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms
Experiencing and exploring sounds and music from different sources
Select, use and combine a variety of software on a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs, systems and content that accomplish given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data and information.
Develop and apply their analytic, problem-solving, design, and computational thinking skills.
Develop their capability, creativity and knowledge in computer science, digital media and information technology.
Connecting subjects learned at school to skills needed at working life
Practicing to notice causal connections
Learning to build information on top of previously learned
Learning to combine information to find new innovations
Encouraging to build new information and visions
Practicing to recognize and express feelings
Practicing to notice causal connections
Developing problem solving skills
Creating requirements for creative thinking
Practicing to improvise
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Practicing persistent working
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
Understanding technological system operations through making
Practicing logical reasoning, algorithms and programming through making
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Understanding and practicing safe and responsible uses of technology
Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Understand and use electrical systems in their products
Understand how instructions are stored and executed within a computer system; understand how data of various types (including text, sounds and pictures) can be represented and manipulated digitally, in the form of binary digits.
Understand simple Boolean logic [for example, AND, OR and NOT] and some of its uses in circuits and programming; understand how numbers can be represented in binary, and be able to carry out simple operations on binary numbers.
Understand the hardware and software components that make up computer systems, and how they communicate with one another and with other systems.
Undertake creative projects that involve selecting, using, and combining multiple applications, preferably across a range of devices, to achieve challenging goals, including collecting and analysing data and meeting the needs of known users.
Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school.
Use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output.
Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs.
Create and debug simple programs.
Design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts.
Design, use and evaluate computational abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and physical systems.
Use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs.
Apply computing and use electronics to embed intelligence in products that respond to inputs, and control outputs, using programmable components
Investigate new and emerging technologies
Participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
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