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It is essential that core skills and knowledge associated with the use of technology and computers are embedded into education systems. A mixture of technical skills and conceptual knowledge must form a central part of students' school experiences, both as a subject in its own right and as a way of facilitating learning and development. Greater efforts must now be made at both the European and national levels to further embed digital literacy into schools and thus ensure that the skills acquired are those that will be needed by Europe's citizens of tomorrow. Formal skills development programmes such as ECDL provide an externally defined structure that can be readily adopted by schools and national education systems.

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