Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Cornelia Connolly:

My colleagues have already touched on it but, with Aistear and the new primary curriculum framework, we have an opportunity with the competency framework to ensure coding is introduced at primary level.

Basic coding like Scratch, drag-and-drop or the use of Raspberry Pi could be introduced in the primary framework. As a result, students would have comprehension of coding going into post-primary.