DBE Concept Document: Introducing Digital Skills for all into GET

The purpose of a Digital Skills for All curriculum is to provide understanding and skills to
• function in a digital and information-driven world
• prepare for the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR)
• develop computational thinking skills to support coding as well as all other subjects
• equip learners with digital and ICT skills and to transfer these skills to solve everyday problems
• develop a new generation of creative, systemic thinkers that can use coding to express their
ideas.

“While our current world is shaped fundamentally by mathematics and science, which we learn in
school, our future world will be a digital world, where our lives are shaped by computers and connected
devices.” (Tink Tank)