Selected results of the research on the development of digital competencies of pupils at primary and lower secondary schools
Abstract
The Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague was within the project Czech Science Foundation carried out research activities focused on the issues of the development of digital competence of children and the role of primary schools in the process of building digital literacy. The target group of the research subjects were teachers of informatics at primary schools in the Czech Republic and their pupils.
The main objective of the project was to identify the current status, structure and orientation of the development of digital competence of children in terms of curriculum, procedural and organizational aspects of building their digital literacy. Relevant research data was through applied research methods obtained from 1183 subjects informatics teachers representing each elementary school, and from 2173 pupils from 112 primary schools.
The article describes selected results of research in the various problem areas.