The Cyprus Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth introduced a new curriculum for new technologies, at grades 5th and 6th of primary education. It consists in a separate subject, developing a subject module called "Health Education – Home Economics / Design and Technology – New Technologies". This addition is expected to strengthen the mainstreaming of digital skills and digital/media literacy in all school subjects.
Τhe subject "New Technologies" (Development of digital technologies for learning) is covered in 16 teaching periods in grade 5 and 16 teaching periods in grade 6, and it includes three modules:
o    Computational thinking
o    Digital skills
o    Digital competence

The module which cultivates students' digital competences will be embedded in four (4) teaching periods in grade 5 (Cyberbullying / Video – Online Games) and four (4) teaching periods in grade 6 (Information – Misinformation / Personal Data and Digital Identity).

The Safer Internet Centre of Cyprus was tasked with developing the four learning modules, containing further analysis of the New Curriculum’s objectives and indicators, analysis, and planning of activities for each module, and development of supporting material. To develop learning modules, the learning design team analysed the activities utilizing digital tools and material and aligning each activity with the relevant learning objective and expected learning products. At the same time, taking into account the role of the teacher and the student, the Centre monitored the whole process to aid the formative and final assessment.

The New Curriculum for Digital Competency and the learning suggestions can be found at the following link: