Digital Competencies: 21st Century Skills For Teachers and Students

Marina Umaschi Bers, professor and chair of the Department of Child Studies and Human Development at Eliot-Pearson, reflects with Cristóbal Cobo, a specialist in education and technology, on the evolution of education at a key moment such as the pandemic and the role of schools and technology in discovering what, how and why we teach. Bers and Cobo underline the importance of teaching children programming and computational thinking, not only for the jobs of the future, but also to teach them to think.