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05.11.2023
More on CS (or Informatics) education one can read in EURYDICE report ([[https://eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu/publications/informatics-education-school-europe]]). The bottom line is that in more or less all EU countries Informatics is in one or other form a mandatory content in K12 education but not in Slovenia.
Let us draw some lines about the guerilla situation in Slovenia:
- in 2013 the general matura exam committee announced new guidelines for exam in elective subject Informatics, that were based on the ACM curriculum guidelines ([[https://redmine.lusy.fri.uni-lj.si/documents/30]], [[https://www.ric.si/splosna-matura/predmeti/informatika/]], [[https://www.ric.si/mma/2017-m-inf-2017/2015083113004713/?m=1441018847]]); note, that this is just a year after a report published by Royal Society, Shutdown or restart? ([[https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/computing-in-schools/report/]]) and in the same year as Académie des Sciences in France published L’enseignement de l’Informatique en France: Il est urgent de ne plus attendre ([[https://www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/rapport/rads_0513.pdf]]).
- in 2016 minister of education formed a committee which should study the situation of Informatics in Slovenian K12 education (RINOS, [[https://www.racunalnistvo-in-informatika-za-vse.si/about/]])
- in 2017 SASA organized a mini symposium on Informatics education in Slovenian schools ([[https://redmine.lusy.fri.uni-lj.si/projects/cs-edu/wiki/Posvet_o_pou%C4%8Devanju_ra%C4%8Dunalni%C5%A1tva_in_informatike]]).
- in 2018 RINOS publishes the first report with four proposals that need to be undertaken ([[https://redmine.lusy.fri.uni-lj.si/attachments/download/2786/Porocilo_RINOS_30_5_18.pdf]]).
- in 2019 the minister of education re-establishes the RINOS with a task to prepare an action plan to introduce Informatics in Slovenian K12 education.
- in October 2019 the draft action plan including financial construction and timetable was presented to the minister of education, and CPI ([[https://cpi.si/en/]]) and ZRSŠ ([[https://www.zrss.si/en/]]) were instructed to respond by November 11th with a detail timetable; CPI responded, ZRSŠ did not.
- in 2021, after a change of minister and in the middle of COVID situation, RINOS publishes the second report which includes some details of above mentioned action plan and warns about the considering digital competences (DigComp) to be considered as an Informatics education ([[https://redmine.lusy.fri.uni-lj.si/attachments/download/3040/Porocilo_RINOS_7_5_21.pdf]])
- in 2022 RINOS publishes its third report with a curriculum framework of Informatics education in Slovenian K12 education ([[https://redmine.lusy.fri.uni-lj.si/attachments/download/3060/Porocilo_RINOS_10_1_22.pdf]]). The framework included also areas like data science and AI, or Cybersecurity, Algorithms and Programming etc.
Guerilla activities continue.
- in 2023 Ministry of education publishes call for experimental K12 Informatics education in Slovenia based on the RINOS framework. So far there will be two such projects (the third is yet to be prepared): B-RIN at the University of Primorska (PEF, FAMNIT, ...) covers kindergarten and first 5 grades; and KATARINA at the University of Ljubljana, FRI that covers high school. Both, if we are in topic of AI, will cover also them.
If you noticed, a lot of things are going on in Slovenia, but vast majority of them are like a guerilla activities without governmental systematic involvement. Moreover, since the minister for digital transformation publicly announced that she is against informatics as a mandatory subject (like in Slovakia, etc.), the guerilla seems to be the only way.