Digital Literacy for Every Child “Educating 3,000 children each year is a ma- jor achievement, but there are over 700,000 students in the educational system in need of our services. In the past two years, in part- nership with 15 schools in the country, the Telerik Academy School team developed a new model that can be implemented at any school in Bulgaria. This model is dictated by the needs of schools to provide ready-made, high-quality educational content on current and interesting topics for learners, as well as by municipalities that want to develop and upgrade the digital skills of students,” says Petar Sharkov, executive director of Telerik Academy School. What’s Next Telerik Academy School is working on a plat- form featuring educational content for grades 1 through 12. Schools will receive access to that content by buying annual subscriptions. Each program developed by Telerik Academy School contains a complete set of study ma- terials and teacher aids. The aim is to cover topics related to artificial intelligence, cyber security, mobile applications, design, robot- ics, programming, and game development as well as topics related to students’ personal development.
“Telerik Academy School’s programs are not for programmers. These programs fully develop students’ competencies in a digital environment: skills for accelerated learning, the ability to create mental maps and to plan. They enable a still-developing person to imagine the professions of the future and find their place in them. These are basic human skills. All other solutions for working with digital tools are focused on the process itself, while the academy’s programs are oriented toward the student; they work for the student and with the student.”
Mihail Nenov principal of
Alexander Georgiev – Kodjakafaliyata Primary & Middle School in Burgas
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