Informatics Education – Supporting Computational Thinking contains papers presented at the Third International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools – Evolution and Perspective, ISSEP 2008, held in July 2008 in Torun, Poland. As with the proceedings of the two previous ISSEP conferences (2005 in Klag- furt, Austria, and 2006 in Vilnius, Lithuania), the papers presented in this volume address issues of informatics education transcending national boundaries and, the- fore, transcending differences in the various national legislation and organization of the educational system. Observing these issues, one might notice a trend. The p- ceedings of the First ISSEP were termed From Computer Literacy to Informatics F- damentals [1]. There, broad room was given to general education in ICT. The ECDL, the European Computer Driving License, propagated since the late 1990s, had pe- trated school at this time already on a broad scale and teachers, parents, as well as pupils were rather happy with this situation. Teachers had material that had a clear scope, was relatively easy to teach, and especially easy to examine. Parents had the assurance that their children learn “modern and relevant stuff,” and for kids the c- puter was sufficiently modern so that anything that had to do with computers was c- sidered to be attractive. Moreover, the difficulties of programming marking the early days of informatics education in school seemed no longer relevant. Some colleagues had a more distant vision though.
Author(s): Maciej M. Sysło, Anna Beata Kwiatkowska (auth.), Roland T. Mittermeir, Maciej M. Sysło (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5090 : Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 357
Tags: Computers and Education; Computers and Society; Personal Computing
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The Challenging Face of Informatics Education in Poland....Pages 1-18
Bebras International Contest on Informatics and Computer Literacy: Criteria for Good Tasks....Pages 19-30
From Top Coders to Top IT Professionals....Pages 31-40
Integrating Mathematical Analysis of Sensors and Motion in a Mobile Robotics Course....Pages 41-52
Visualization of Program Behaviors: Physical Robots Versus Robot Simulators....Pages 53-62
Development of an Educational System to Control Robots for All Students....Pages 63-74
Proposal for Teaching Manufacturing and Control Programming Using Autonomous Mobile Robots with an Arm....Pages 75-86
Design Disciplines and Non-specific Transfer....Pages 87-98
Like a (School of) Fish in Water (or ICT-Enhanced Skills in Action)....Pages 99-109
Duality Reconstruction – Teaching Digital Artifacts from a Socio-technical Perspective....Pages 110-121
What’s My Challenge? The Forgotten Part of Problem Solving in Computer Science Education....Pages 122-133
Bringing Abstract Concepts Alive. How to Base Learning Success on the Principles of Playing, Curiosity and In-Classroom Differentiation....Pages 134-141
Analysis of Learning Objectives in Object Oriented Programming....Pages 142-150
To Have or to Be? Possessing Data Versus Being in a State – Two Different Intuitive Concepts Used in Informatics....Pages 151-160
Understanding Object Oriented Programming Concepts in an Advanced Programming Course....Pages 161-170
Spiral Teaching of Programming to 10–11 Year-Old Pupils After Passed First Training (Based on the Language C++)....Pages 171-179
Multi-facet Problem Comprehension: Utilizing an Algorithmic Idea in Different Contexts....Pages 180-191
VIPER, a Student-Friendly Visual Interpreter of Pascal....Pages 192-203
Analysis of Students’ Developed Programs at the Maturity Exams in Information Technologies....Pages 204-215
Creating and Testing Textbooks for Secondary Schools....Pages 216-228
Informatics as a Contribution to the Modern Constructivist Education....Pages 229-240
New Methodology of Information Education with “Computer Science Unplugged”....Pages 241-252
Disciplinary-Pedagogical Teacher Preparation for Pre-service Computer Science Teachers: Rational and Implementation....Pages 253-264
Algorithm – Fundamental Concept in Preparing Informatics Teachers....Pages 265-271
Computer Science Teacher Training at the University of Groningen....Pages 272-281
Distance Learning Course for Training Teachers’ ICT Competence....Pages 282-292
Teaching Information Technology and Elements of Informatics in Lower Secondary Schools: Curricula, Didactic Provision and Implementation....Pages 293-304
Spreadsheet Knowledge and Skills of French Secondary School Students....Pages 305-316
Harmonization of Informatics Education – Science Fiction or Prospective Reality?....Pages 317-326
Development of E-Learning Design Criteria with Secure Realization Concepts....Pages 327-336
On the Technological Aspects of Generative Learning Object Development....Pages 337-348
Informational Technologies for Further Education of Latvian Province Teachers of Informatics....Pages 349-356
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