Information Technology in Elementary School from Extracurricular Activities to Elective Subject

Kako bi škola uspjela učenike osposobiti za život u 21. stoljeću potrebno ih je osposobiti za primjenu informacijske i komunikacijske tehnologije u učenju i u životu. Uloga nastavnika u suvremenoj nastavi je osposobiti učenike da budu digitalno pismeni što znači da znaju raditi na računalu, a digitalna kompetencija je jedna od osam temeljnih kompetencija koje je odredila Europska unija. U Hrvatskoj se provodi obrazovna reforma koja nastavni predmet Informatiku uvodi kao izborni predmet od prvoga razreda osnovne škole i kao obavezan predmet od petoga razreda osnovne škole. U ovom radu prikazan je stari obrazovni sustav Hrvatske te novi obrazovni sustav, a uspoređeni su i kurikuli zemalja Finske i Poljske s Hrvatskim kurikulom. Kao potkrepljenje rada jednu domenu iz nastavnoga predmeta Informatika primijenilIn order for school to be able to empower students for life in the 21st century, they need to empower them to use information and communication technology in teaching and in life. The role of teachers in contemporary teaching is to enable students to be digitally literate, which means to know working on a computer and digital competence is one of the eight core competences that have been defined by the European Union. Educational reform is being implemented in Croatia, which introduces Informatics as an elective subject from the first grade of primary school and as a compulsory subject from the fifth grade of primary school. This master thesis presents the old Croatian education system with new education system, and also compares the curricula of Finnish and Polish countries with the Croatian curriculum. As a substantiation of the master thesis we applied one domain from the Informatics teaching subjects with the students of the first grade of primary school, and the student results are presented