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The dynamic development of digital technology has an increasing influence on all areas of our lives. New technologies are also changing the face of education. Young people are particularly attracted to technological innovations. It is important that students consciously and constructively use the newest information technologies, which they should learn at school. The responsibility to take on new educational challenges lies with the teacher, who must have high digital competences and learn to act effectively in a rapidly changing reality. Between June 2017 and December 2019, more than 140 early-education school teachers were trained in the programming teaching course. Before 36-h training and after 30 h of lessons assessments among teachers based on pre- and post-questionnaires about digital competences were performed. The questionnaires were prepared accordingly to the Digital Competence Framework 2.0 (DigComp 2.0). Obtained results gave a picture of the effectiveness of developing the digital competences of the primary school teachers.
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The work was supported by the grant WZ/WI-IIT/2/2020 from Bialystok University of Technology and funded with resources for research by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland.
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Czołombitko, M. et al. (2021). Development of Digital Competences of Elementary School Teachers with a Life-Long Learning Approach. In: Saeed, K., Dvorský, J. (eds) Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management. CISIM 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12883. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84340-3_8
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