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House of Lords; paragraph 394 The House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies, said this about digital literacy and skills in schools in its 2020, report, ‘Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust’; “It is not this Committee’s place, or aim, to re-organise the education system. However, better digital media literacy should be placed in the context of the need for a wider change in education in response to the influence and use of
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digital technology. When we asked civil servants about how the Government planned to respond to these changes, ... the Department for Education told us that the Government’s “big computer science programme … aims to train one teacher in every secondary school… both in subject content and pedagogy”.
additional commitment is needed to bring about change.
We regard this as an underwhelming response demonstrating a lack of understanding within the Department about what kind of investment and
We need better coordination and commitment across government and the Forum recommends the creation of an Office for EdTech and Digital Skills located
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We remain sceptical as to whether the Government has a full understanding of the critical ways in which digital media literacy and technical computing skills differ.”
