With the creation, at the start of the 2019 school year, of a compulsory course in the second year of secondary school, "Digital Sciences and Technology" (NST ), and the creation, in the first and final years of secondary school, of the speciality course "Digital and Computer Sciences" (NSI), the teaching of digital technology in secondary school is changing scale.
In the second year, the teaching of " Digital Sciences and Technology " concerns 560,000 students, 18,600 classes, i.e. 28,000 hours (without taking into account the duplication). At the start of the 2019 school year, 31,502 students in Première have chosen the new "Digital and Computer Sciences" specialization.
"Digital sciences and technology": a generalized teaching for 560,000 students in the second year of secondary school
Within the framework of the reform of the baccalaureate, a new teaching mandatory has been created in the general and technological second year. It replaces the (optional) exploration course in Computer Science and Digital Creation. This teaching has been generalized at the start of the school year in September 2019 to all French high schools for the second year classes.
With a weekly duration of 1.5 hours, this teaching aims to allow students to grasp the main concepts of digital sciences, but also to allow students, based on a technological object, to understand the growing importance of digital technology and the resulting societal issues.
This course is an extension of the teaching of algorithms, computer science and programming provided in secondary school in mathematics and technology. It deepens these notions and the practice of programming through activities related to the 7 themes of the program: Internet, the Web, social networks, structured data and their processing, location, cartography and mobility, embedded computing and connected objects, digital photography.
8% of first-year students chose the new specialty course "Numerics and Computer Science".
At the start of the 2019 school year, 31,502 students chose to take the new "digital and computer science" specialization. This is all the more notable because this teaching is not yet offered by all schools, due to a lack of teachers trained in this discipline.
8.1% of the 386,600 students in 1ère générale chose digital and computer science education: among them, six times more girls (2.6%) than boys (15.2%).
On the other hand, the choice of "digital and computer sciences" is not very much determined by social origin: 8.4% of students from an advantaged social background chose this course, 7.7% of students from an average social background and 7% of students from a disadvantaged social background.
Référence :
Nearly 120,000 students in their final year of high school have taken a "computer science and digital science" course since 2013
The "digital and computer sciences" specialization in the first and last years of high school (4 hours) replaces the "computer and digital sciences" specialization (2 hours per week). Introduced in 2012, this course was only offered to students in the terminale S. In 2018, it concerned 22,000 students (about 11.4%) in 1,231 high schools.
In total, since 2013, nearly 120,000 Terminale S students have taken this course.
In September 2016, the National Education had implemented an optional teaching " computer science and digital creation" (ICN) for the classes of première ES, L and S, extended in September 2017 to the classes of terminale ES and L.
This teaching should "allow students to understand the logic and the stakes of information processing, to acquire a new mastery of the logic and concepts implemented in the digital domain, but also to mobilize the digital as a vector of creativity".
The ICN exploration course in the second year of secondary school (1.5 hours per week) concerned 32,000 students (about 6%) in 1,172 high schools in 2018
The optional ICN course (2 hours per week), intended for students in 1ère (L, ES and S series), and terminale (L and ES series), on the other hand, concerned only 3,650 students (0.7%) in 365 high schools.
SNT in second year, NSI in first and last year: a change of scale in digital education in high school
With the creation, at the start of the 2019 school year, of a compulsory course in the second year of secondary school, "Digital Sciences and Technology" (NST ), and the creation, in the first and final years of secondary school, of the speciality course "Digital and Computer Sciences" (NSI), the teaching of digital technology in secondary school is changing scale.
In the second year, the teaching of " Digital Sciences and Technology " concerns 560,000 students, 18,600 classes, i.e. 28,000 hours (without taking into account the duplication). At the start of the 2019 school year, 31,502 students in Première have chosen the new "Digital and Computer Sciences" specialization.
"Digital sciences and technology": a generalized teaching for 560,000 students in the second year of secondary school
Within the framework of the reform of the baccalaureate, a new teaching mandatory has been created in the general and technological second year. It replaces the (optional) exploration course in Computer Science and Digital Creation. This teaching has been generalized at the start of the school year in September 2019 to all French high schools for the second year classes.
With a weekly duration of 1.5 hours, this teaching aims to allow students to grasp the main concepts of digital sciences, but also to allow students, based on a technological object, to understand the growing importance of digital technology and the resulting societal issues.
This course is an extension of the teaching of algorithms, computer science and programming provided in secondary school in mathematics and technology. It deepens these notions and the practice of programming through activities related to the 7 themes of the program: Internet, the Web, social networks, structured data and their processing, location, cartography and mobility, embedded computing and connected objects, digital photography.
8% of first-year students chose the new specialty course "Numerics and Computer Science".
At the start of the 2019 school year, 31,502 students chose to take the new "digital and computer science" specialization. This is all the more notable because this teaching is not yet offered by all schools, due to a lack of teachers trained in this discipline.
8.1% of the 386,600 students in 1ère générale chose digital and computer science education: among them, six times more girls (2.6%) than boys (15.2%).
On the other hand, the choice of "digital and computer sciences" is not very much determined by social origin: 8.4% of students from an advantaged social background chose this course, 7.7% of students from an average social background and 7% of students from a disadvantaged social background.
Référence :
Nearly 120,000 students in their final year of high school have taken a "computer science and digital science" course since 2013
The "digital and computer sciences" specialization in the first and last years of high school (4 hours) replaces the "computer and digital sciences" specialization (2 hours per week). Introduced in 2012, this course was only offered to students in the terminale S. In 2018, it concerned 22,000 students (about 11.4%) in 1,231 high schools.
In total, since 2013, nearly 120,000 Terminale S students have taken this course.
In September 2016, the National Education had implemented an optional teaching " computer science and digital creation" (ICN) for the classes of première ES, L and S, extended in September 2017 to the classes of terminale ES and L.
This teaching should "allow students to understand the logic and the stakes of information processing, to acquire a new mastery of the logic and concepts implemented in the digital domain, but also to mobilize the digital as a vector of creativity".
The ICN exploration course in the second year of secondary school (1.5 hours per week) concerned 32,000 students (about 6%) in 1,172 high schools in 2018
The optional ICN course (2 hours per week), intended for students in 1ère (L, ES and S series), and terminale (L and ES series), on the other hand, concerned only 3,650 students (0.7%) in 365 high schools.