Information technology education in elementary teaching – several areas for improvement

Abstract

For years now, information technology in grades 1 to 3 has been taught on a mandatory basis. Despite this, a number of problems related thereto still have not been solved. These include no computer laboratories adapted to the needs and capacities of pupils, insufficient IT competences among many early childhood education teachers, curricula and related course books which are quite poor in content, methodological mistakes made by teachers, in particular consisting in the lack of assigning specific activities to pupils and monitoring the completion thereof, as well as in an incorrect integration and correlating the IT content.