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Initiative overview
The goal of the national project “Support for the Digital Transformation of Education” (DiTEdu) is to create innovative teaching methodologies for preschools, primary schools, and secondary schools that will reflect the latest trends in digitalisation. It builds upon the project of the National IT Academy along with partners, the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (UPJŠ) and Comenius University in Bratislava (UK), Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic (MŠVVaM SR), to create study materials for new and innovative subjects in the field of artificial intelligence, including topics such as Introduction to Neural Networks, Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence, and Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence.
The activity “Support for the Digital Transformation of Education” will be implemented, divided into nine sub-activities with nationwide impact. These will involve formal and informal education of school digital coordinators, principals, teaching and professional staff of kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, students of teaching programmes at universities, updating and creating innovative methodologies, networking schools and staff, certifying the quality of digital schools, and popularization. Educational research aims to improve the quality of the provided support, ensure the safety of digital transformation considering its risks, and communicate the acquired knowledge with the international community. The activity is divided into 9 sub-activities:
1. Education and continuous methodological support for school digital coordinators.
2. Adaptation of the EU DigCompEdu framework into undergraduate education and professional development of teaching and professional staff of kindergartens, primary and secondary schools.
3. Creation and use of methodological materials to support the digital transformation of education.
4. Establishing a community of cooperation with other organisations and departments of the Ministry of Education, the academic community, primary and secondary schools, public administration and self-government bodies, other entities, and the public in the field of utilising and exchanging experiences of practitioners in the field of digital transformation of education.
5. Creation of analyses, expert opinions, standards, recommendations, criteria, and mechanisms for implementing measures in the field of digital transformation of education.
6. Implementation and support of educational research in the field of digital transformation of education.
7. Preparation, implementation, and certification of the quality of educational content, teaching methods, and schools of digital excellence.
8. Experimental verification of a new study programme “Gymnasium” with a focus on informatics.
9. Popularisation activities and support for public awareness of the needs of digital transformation of education.
