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Education that does not include an understanding of the Internet and how to live with it, is deficient. This article describes how the Internet can be learned in schools, what the curriculum for such learning should be at various stages of schooling, what pedagogical methods should be used to achieve the learning objectives and what methods should be used to assess the learning outcomes. It is based on decades of experiments and observations by the author and others.
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Note: This is not a research article. It is a suggestion based on research and experience with children and the Internet since the 1990s (see, e.g., Mitra, 2022). The suggestion is to introduce a subject called “The Internet” into all levels of schooling. The suggestion is from my keynote at the OECD Education Summit in Jerusalem in June 2022 and subsequent discussions with educators from the Israeli Ministry of Education and other educators.
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Mitra, S. The internet as a subject in schools. Prospects 52, 243–247 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-022-09620-x
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