TIRANA, September 12/ATA/- The new school year started today for all pre-university educational institutions in the country.
On this special day for all students, Prime Minister Edi Rama visited the 9-year school “Jeronim De Rada” in the capital, where for the first time, the Information Technology and Communication (ICT) subject will be taught in the first grade.
The new Smart Digital Laboratory of the school was inaugurated today to serve this purpose. The same lab will be part of the teaching cabinets in at least 100 public basic education schools in the country.
Together with Minister of Education and Sports Evis Kushi and the Minister of State for Youth and Children Bora Muzhaqi, PM Rama visited the New Smart Laboratory.
Then, for those present, the Director of Innovation at the National Agency of the Information Society presented the new curriculum of the ICT program.
The prime minister said that special attention will be paid to training young people with coding programs, to prepare them for a new job market.
“These are the first 100 laboratories that we install in cooperation with the Albanian-American Development Foundation. In the meantime, we have the joint program with the World Bank and in the meantime we also have a plan to support us from a budgetary point of view, making this whole system spread to all schools in the country in a reasonable time. The fundamental point is to give opportunities to older people to enter an in-depth phase of coding and through that knowledge to become capable of another market”, emphasized Rama.
The ICT program for the first grade is conceived on the basis of creating students’ digital knowledge and skills from an early age, respecting the age framework and the initial level of knowledge that these students possess.
This program, – drawn up in collaboration with international British experts of the AADF, specialists of the Quality Assurance Agency of Pre-university Education, specialists of the National Agency of the Information Society, representatives of the cabinet of the Ministry of State for Children and Youth, – develops the main field and competences through 4 main themes: Computer world, Introduction to multimedia, thinking and coding, computer security./p.s./
