Early learning for digital life
For 20 years, ECDL Ireland has been championing digital skills in Irish schools, but with the terrain shifting with every technological development, the importance, and even nature, of those skills develop
The message from the education sector is clear: schools want digital skills to be taught more comprehensively, and from an earlier age.
And no wonder. Consider how technology, particularly in social life and media consumption, has become central to children’s lives.
“At school, digital skills are, increasingly, an integral part of daily life,” said Claudia Delaney, head of education at ECDL Ireland.
“I’m a mother of two and most children, like mine, either ...
