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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Early intervention is the key to ensuring that kids adopt healthy attitudes and behaviors towards technology. NewTechKids is developing ways to shape these in young children through a series of lessons we're teaching which emphasize good judgement and active decision-making. During the 2025-2026 school year, we are teaching weekly digital literacy lessons at IKC Metropool, a primary school located in Amsterdam southeast, an area with a large proportion of low-income, immigrant and refugee families. Our
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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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NewTechKids wants to partner with one primary school in Diemen or Amsterdam Southeast to bring digital literacy lessons to all of its students (groups 1-8) over the 2025-2026 school year. We're looking for a school which serves low-income students and their families: particularly students who would not normally have access to technology education. We're looking for a school director and team of teachers who understand the importance of tech education and want to give their
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"We don't want help. We can do it on our own." During a recent NewTechKids computer science class at an Amsterdam primary school, we challenged students to design robots which can play musical instrument toys. Our collection of toy instruments includes a plastic didgeridoo which has never been used. When I mentioned this and challenged students to choose it, a pair of girls grabbed it. Not just any girls: a pair that loves building, figuring
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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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