Amman, August 3 (Petra) – The National Centre for Curriculum Development (NCCD) announced the launch of the “Digital Skills” curriculum as part of a comprehensive educational development plan for 1-12 grades.

In a press statement on Sunday, the center said the new textbooks aim to empower students with future skills and enhance their ability to interact with the requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and build a digital knowledge economy.

The new version replaces the traditional computer curriculum and has already been implemented in grades 7, 9, and 11 during the 2024/2025 academic year, as grades 8, 10, and 12 will be covered, starting in the 2025/2026 academic year.

Featuring teacher guidance manuals, the center noted interactive activity books were prepared for grades 1-6, taking into account students’ developmental traits and intersecting with science, mathematics, social studies, and Arabic language subjects.

The center also noted this curriculum came in response to rapid technological changes and marks an effort to overhaul the Kingdom’s education system.

Under the activities, students will acquire “advanced” concepts in artificial intelligence, programming, data analysis, and the Internet of Things, as well as materials aimed to enhance critical and creative thinking skills and digital production from the early stages of education.

In this context, Dr. Walid Salama, head of the curriculum development team, said the initiative represents a “qualitative shift” in the Kingdom’s philosophy of education to enable students to become information creators and enhance their interaction with technology and innovation from an early age.

Salama added that the team worked to develop a modern curriculum, based on international standards with practical application tools both inside and outside the classroom.

On its axes, the curriculum features 8 main relevant areas and the content was developed according to international standards, mainly criteria of International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and standards enacted in countries such as the United Kingdom, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates.

The new courses also took into account the sidebar document for the overall framework of Jordanian curricula, which defines the governing foundations of the educational process, mainly standards and outcomes, and a review and analysis of the previous Jordanian curriculum for computer science.
//Petra// AG
03/08/2025 17:29:40