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Teaching data and AI skills – to teachers and learners

Young people constantly encounter digital technologies in their everyday lives. Therefore, they should learn how to both critically evaluate and effectively use them. So how can teachers be supported in preparing new generations for the digital world?

Together with partners from Germany, Austria and Lithuania, the TrainDL project "Teacher Training for Data Literacy & Computer Science Competences" aims to develop educational concepts for data literacy and artificial intelligence competencies and embed them in teacher and school education. The project is funded by the European Union in the Erasmus+ program.

About the competencies

Future skills in the here and now

>> By focusing on data literacy and AI education, TrainDL recognizes the need for contemporary computer science education in schools across Europe. On the one hand, the different approaches to computer science education per se, but also the digitalization of all areas of life and the danger of the digital divide are taken into account.

>> New trainings and teaching materials will thus ensure to democratize these future competencies and to provide students in Europe with equal access via general school education.

Teaching Teachers

>> In the project, Open Educational Resources (OER) and training modules for teachers of different levels and subjects will be developed in three iterative field trials. Computer science teachers, as well as teachers of all STEM subjects and primary education, will be supported in integrating AI and data literacy into the classroom in an accessible and professional manner.

>> Numerous trainings with different target groups and new learning activities have already taken place. Those of the first project phase are summarized in a report. Read it here

Policy Experimentation

>> The policy experimentation approach makes it possible to continuously integrate the actual framework conditions set by political decision-makers in the respective education systems into the project activities. This is to ensure the applicability of the project results and a sustainable implementation in education policy. Education authorities from all project countries are therefore partners in TrainDL.

>> In a WebTalk on the topic, experts provided insights into the approach. To the recording

Thinking europe-wide

>> Starting from the partner countries Lithuania, Austria and Germany, the project results are designed for application in all EU member states. It is a central goal of TrainDL to provide recommendations for the structural implementation of these topics in national curricula and education systems in Europe.

>> Work in Progress: In the Policy Monitor, TrainDL begins to illustrate the inclusion of AI and data literacy in European education. To the Policy Monitor

Future skills in the here and now
Teaching Teachers
Policy Experimentation
Thinking europe-wide

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At the closing of the project, we cordially invite all those interested to the „TrainDL Summit: Teaching Data Literacy and AI Competencies“ on February 22 and 23, 2024, in Berlin.

"Contacts like these are usually difficult to establish in everyday working life."

As a consultant at the Berlin-Brandenburg State Institute for Schools and Media, Cornelia Brückner is part of the TrainDL consortium. In this interview she talks about the perspective of a public authority on the project, the importance of international exchange and personal highlights.

To the interview

TrainDL - Teacher training for Data Literacy & Computer Science competences

Erasmus+ K3 Policy Experimentation Priority 1 Digital Education and Competences

https://www.eacea.ec.europa.eu/index_en

Financing period: 28.2.21-27.2.24

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.