Informatics in Schools. Sustainable Informatics Education for Pupils of all Ages
Subtitle: 6th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2013, Oldenburg, Germany, February 26–March 2, 2013. Proceedings
By: edited by Ira Diethelm, Roland T. Mittermeir
Contributors: Mittermeir, Roland T.; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science -- 7780
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9783642366178
Subjects: Computers and Education; Computers and Society; Science; Learning & Instruction; Study and teaching; Computer science; Education; Personal Computing
Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2013, held in Oldenburg, Germany, in February/March 2013. The 15 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions; in addition the book contains two keynote talks in full-paper length. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: from computer usage to computational thinking; algorithmic and computational thinking; games; informatics in the context of other disciplines; and competence-based learning and retention of competencies.
Table of contents: title: The Darmstadt Model: A First Step towards a Research Framework for Computer Science Education in Schools; title: Computer Science in Secondary Schools in the UK: Ways to Empower Teachers; title: From Computer Usage to Computational Thinking Informatics in the French Secondary Curricula: Recent Moves and Perspectives; title: Informatics for All High School Students: A Computational Thinking Approach; title: Novice Difficulties with Interleaved Pattern Composition; title: Blind Pupils Begin to Solve Algorithmic Problems; title: Location-Based Games in Informatics Education; title: Using Computer Games as Programming Assignments for University Students and Secondary School Pupils; title: Informatics in the Context of Other Disciplines The Context-Based Approach IniK in Light of Situated and Constructive Learning Theories; title: “Archaeology of Information” in the Primary School; title: The Contribution of Computer Science to Learning Computational Physics; title: Computer Modeling with Delphi: Constructionism and IBL in Practice and Motivation for Studying STEM; title: Learning Fields in Vocational IT Education – How Teachers Interpret the Concept; title: Competence Measurement and Informatics Standards in Secondary Education; title: On Competence-Based Learning and Neuroscience; title: Categorization of Pictures in Tasks of the Bebras Contest; title: Research-Based Learning Revisited: On Using a Delphi Process in Informatics Teacher Education.