The Ministry of Education is preparing to replace the B2i with an "attestation of the level of mastery of digital skills." This digital skills reference framework will be the subject of a consultation in a panel of schools and colleges between February and April 2017.
"The new Common Base of Knowledge, Skills and Culture and the new programs reinforce the place of digital technology in teaching and educational practices. Learning activities allow students to develop knowledge and skills, but also to broaden their understanding of digital issues.
In this context, a new draft reference framework was developed in 2016. It gathers and organizes in a progressive way and according to 5 specific domains, the 16 digital skills developed from elementary school to university as well as in the context of adult continuing education."
This reference framework will replace the B2i, which disappears in school and college at the start of the 2016-2017 school year but continues in high school until the start of the 2017-2018 school year.
For compulsory schooling a certificate of the level of mastery of digital skills will be issued to students from the 2017-2018 school year.
The reference system is organized into five areas and sixteen sub-areas of competence.
- "Information and Data", which deals with information retrieval and data processing and integrates media and information literacy issues.
- "Communication and collaboration", which deals with interactions and what falls under netiquette, content sharing.
- "Content", a field dedicated to the creation of digital content from the simplest to the most elaborate, including computer programs. It also deals with issues related to publishing rights on networks.
- "Protection and security": this area deals with everything that concerns the security of the equipment but also health and the environment as well as the protection of personal data.
- "Digital Environment" which addresses the skills that enable an individual to fit into a digital world and understand how it works.
For each of the domains and sub-domains, 8 levels of mastery are identified.
An adaptation of the European DIGCOMP standard for France
In 2013, the European Commission produced a framework repository of digital competencies to be shared by all member states - the DIGCOMP.This correspondence between national and European reference systems aims to allow better recognition of the new certification outside national borders, and to facilitate the mobility of pupils, students and professionals certified by the system.
Pix, the online assessment and certification platform for digital skills
The progressive implementation of an online assessment and certification platform for digital skills is planned for the start of the 2017 school year. It will allow, from evaluation situations in the different domains and competences of the reference framework to a "user" (pupil from 4th grade, student, adult) to accumulate, step by step, value units (PIX) corresponding to the different levels of the reference framework.A certification of digital skills that can be used in a professional career
The system will be accessible to pupils and students, but also to professionals within the framework of continuing education for adults, on the model of what the C2i and B2i adults already allowed.The new certification will not aim at the certification of "professional" digital skills (developers, webdesigners, etc.) but of a general digital culture, useful for the exercise of most professions but also for the exercise of one's citizenship.
Implementation schedule
A consultation period for the framework and accompanying materials is being implemented in a panel of schools and colleges between February and April 2017.
The publication of the decree, the order and the circular is planned before the beginning of the school year.
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