Educational offensive in BW: Students master digital future with ICDL!

Educational offensive in BW: Students master digital future with ICDL!

Tauberbischofsheim, Deutschland - The educational landscape in Baden-Württemberg experiences a profound change, which focuses in particular on the subject of computer science. Headmaster Hermann Ruppert of the Technical Gymnasium Tauberbischofsheim emphasizes that the school is leading the school with the introduction of the compulsory subject computer science and the electoral compartment. 23 students in class TGTM 12 have successfully completed their ICDL, an internationally recognized certificate that certifies digital skills. This initiative aims to not only train the students for the digital age, but also to significantly increase their opportunities on the labor market, according to Ralf Scherer, head of department of the technical high school. It emphasizes the increasing importance of IT security and its training content that help the students recognize and actively counter dangers on the Internet. According to the are such digital skills A must in today's professional world.

The computer science professor Juraj Hromkovic from ETH Zurich determines the urgency to teach children programming. In an interview, he emphasizes the fundamental importance of computer science for the development of critical thinking. Hromkovic calls for an independent school subject computer science, since digital understanding is fundamental to transform children into producers in the digital world instead of just making them consumers. "In order to develop fun with programming, children do not have to be math," said Hromkovic, who adds that the creative approach in programming lessons contributes to learning everything in an understandable way. These approaches are also pursued as part of projects such as “Primalogo”, which conveys the basics through a child -friendly programming language. The professor criticizes the current educational situation, which is often considered insufficient, since computer science content is often mixed with media education. Hromkovic calls for a clear separation and specialization to ensure that students can not only serve the technologies of the future, but also design how he can in an article by fritz+fränzi emphasized.