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Digitalization is one of the most promising ways to increase productivity in society. In addition, it is widely accepted that digitalization will renew the economy, also substantially affecting the transformation of work life by creating new jobs resulting from innovation (Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2011; Mokyr et al. 2015). The educational system is also influenced by digitalization in at least two ways. First, the educational system is a platform that has been digitalized similar to the other sectors of society, meaning new learning methods, tools, and communication between schools and homes. Second, a digitalized education system is intended to build digitally literate citizens who have gained the skills to be active members of the digital society, participants in its economic, as well as in other societal, processes. Digitalization has influenced almost all work tasks and has created completely new jobs requiring competence to utilize computers and other digital devices...

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    Jari Multisilta

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Multisilta, J., Tuomi, P. (2019). Teaching and Learning Computational Thinking and Coding Skills. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60013-0_60-1

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