Modern Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Computer Science in Primary School

The article analyzes modern pedagogical approaches to teaching computer science in primary school, emphasizing their potential for modernizing the content and organization of the educational process. The relevance is determined by the need to develop pupils’ digital literacy and twenty-first-century skills in the context of the rapid digitalization of society. Computer Science is considered a space for the formation of information culture, algorithmic thinking, creativity, and collaboration. The competence-based, activity-based, learner-centered, systems approach, microlearning, problem-based, inquiry-based, project-based, flipped learning, integrative, CS Unplugged, gamification, and BYOD approaches are outlined as effective strategies for developing digital competence and lifelong learning skills.