Digital information skills, digital media literacy and critical thinking should be more widely represented horizontally across the curriculum. This is being discussed in the working group, which is preparing a new vision for the curricula, announced the Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Dr. Emilia Lazarova, during the forum “Together in the fight against cyberbullying of children.”
She pointed out that in the new curricula for computer modeling for grades 3 and 4 and in the updated curricula for information technologies for grades 5-10 these topics are covered and there are lessons specifically dedicated to them. In class lessons, cybersecurity and cyberbullying are also part of the mandatory topics, Emilia Lazarova explained.
This month, the Ministry of Education and Science issued guidelines for working with artificial intelligence, which were developed with the help of many organizations involved in the problems of education of children and students and have a recommendatory nature, it was clear from her words.
The Ministry of Education and Science clearly takes into account the realities of the modern world. Now all students, teachers and principals in the education system have their electronic identity. The digital backpack also works, which gives teachers and students enormous opportunities.
“At the same time, we are also aware of what the problems related to cybersecurity and cyberbullying can be,” Emilia Lazarova said. She pointed out that children are particularly sensitive. That is why the Ministry of Education and Science takes measures both for the prevention of such cases and for the psychological support of children concerned. In the autumn of last year, an extremely useful training of the national mobile group for psychological support was carried out. The goal was to help the children and to have such psychological models with which they can more easily deal with the bullying they have experienced, Deputy Minister Lazarova explained during the forum.
It was also attended by the Deputy Mayor of Sofia for Digitization, Innovation and Economic Development Ivan Goychev, the Deputy Chairperson of the Committee on Internal Security and Public Order in the Parliament Myumyun Myumyun, the head of the Regional Department for Education Sofia-city Vanya Kastreva, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Child Protection Agency and other institutions. Organizers are the Bulgarian Academy for Security and Media “Standard”.
