For the past month and a half, NewTechKids has been slowly introducing AI literacy to students in groups 1-8 at IKC Metropool, a new primary school in Amsterdam southeast that is integrating tech education into its core curriculum. This is based on our belief that schools have to start teaching kids about AI as soon as they start school to equip them with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the AI in their lives
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NewTechKids To Test New AI Literacy Curriculum and Lessons For the past 11 years, NewTechKids has been breaking barriers in tech education. We are continuing our track record with a new pilot program during which we will test a new AI literacy curriculum for senior primary school students at four Amsterdam primary schools. The pilot program has been commissioned by the Municipality of Amsterdam and will run until the end of December 2026. During the
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It's time for the education system to make a choice: continue to ignore the importance of teaching kids and teens how to navigate technological innovation OR try to prepare them for constant and rapid technological innovation. Nowhere is this now more critical than when it comes to AI. Fail to teach kids to understand how it works, form ethical behavior around it and use it responsibly and schools will undo a lot of the benefits
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NewTechKids is collaborating with IKC Metropool, a primary and middle school in Amsterdam southeast, to integrate technology education into its formal school curriculum. For the 2025-2026 school year, NewTechKids is teaching all students at this small school once per week, covering digital literacy, introduction to digital productivity tools, computer science and AI literacy. For older students (ages 10-12), our first module focused on hacking for good. We taught them how to stay safe online and
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While NewTechKids teaches primary and middle school students tech knowledge and skills and an innovator's mindset, we don't control how they deploy them. We were reminded of this very fact recently. This week, we wrapped up our game design module for students at an Amsterdam primary school. We use game design as the context for teaching digital literacy topics, including: online safety dopamine and tech addiction privacy and the way gaming companies use our data
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It's hard to help kids understand what AI is, how it works, and how computer "intelligence" is far from perfect. That's why NewTechKids is devoting more time to developing an AI curriculum for older primary school students. We're not only teaching them how the tech behind AI works, we're also teaching them to think critically about the pros, cons and implications of tech. (Should AI companies pay artist if work is generated from an artist's
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NewTechKids is returning to Wereldwijs primary school in Amsterdam southeast for the third year in a row. We'll be teaching digital literacy programs to all classes in the entire school over the 2024-2025 school year. We'll be teaching an 'Intro to Technology and Responsible Usage' to the youngest students which covers topics such as online safety, responsible usage, being creative with tech (not only passive consumption) and coding. Our teaching team is testing the limits
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With every second news headline mentioning AI, ChatGPT, etc., NewTechKids has decided to launch our first 'Intro to Generative AI' after-school bootcamp for kids ages 9-14. The bootcamp of four weekly sessions will take place on Thursday afternoons from 16:30 - 18:00 at the Amsterdam Public Library near Centraal Station, starting on June 29th. Some schools have adopted a strict 'no ChatGPT' ban. Others are experimenting with restricted usage and creating new learning experiences which
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NewTechKids ended up making some important last-minute changes to our digital literacy programs for primary school students at Wereldwijs Primary School in Amsterdam Southeast. Why? The explosion of generative AI. In their article "Teaching Digital Literacy is a 21st Century Imperative & This is Why", Miah Daughtery and Laura B. Hansen write "In classrooms, digital literacy enables students to access information in new ways and then communicate what has been learned with others, giving students
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Yesterday, NewTechKids kicked off a very exciting project: teaching digital literacy to all 475 students at the Wereldwijs Primary School in Amsterdam southeast. We'll be teaching students in groups 1 - 8. Older students will be taught in a combination of Dutch and English since the language of technology is English. Wereldwijs has been designated an 'Excellent School 2022-2025' for primary education by the Dutch Ministry of Education in 2019 and 2022. Led by a
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