A Core Informatics Curriculum for Italian Compulsory Education

In order to bring informatics, its ideas and ways of think- ing of major educational value to all primary and secondary school stu- dents, the Italian Inter-universities Consortium for Informatics (CINI), in collaboration with the academic associations who gather together researchers in informatics (GRIN) and computer engineering (GII), has recently proposed a core informatics curriculum for all the levels of com- pulsory school. This paper summarizes the proposed curriculum, high- lights the key underlying motivations, and outlines a possible strategy to ensure that its implementation in schools can be effective.