One of my Diego Thomson tasks was to create a curriculum for teaching computing to the other two study fields of study (primartia and inicial). Last week I created that curriculum and we are also setting up a course for February/March next year.
The PDF file Currículo primaria e inicial is available for download. The main points we teach are:
- Use the Linux system: logging in, running applications, loggin out
- Internet: Firefox, find information using Web search engines or Wikipedia, email
- Applications: text editing, presentations, graphics
- How to use computers for teaching
I initially created that curriculum as a suggestion. But all the people attending the meeting about it immediately liked it. So I didn't have to change anything (except adding some sound tasks to it).
This whole course will of course be tought using free software (OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Gimp, etc.) Some software is mentioned in the curriculum.