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Dagiene, Valentina; Hromkovic, Juraj; Lacher, Regula – Informatics in Education, 2021
Computing as a discipline has common roots with mathematics and written languages, and computing as a way of thinking and handling has been integral to human culture since ever. This is not only a reasonable argument for convincing society to consider informatics as one of the very fundamental pillars of education, but it also puts the potential…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Constructivism (Learning)
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Maciej M. Syslo – Informatics in Education, 2024
The first books in Polish about the Pascal programming language appeared in the late 1970s, and were soon followed by a Polish translation of Niklaus Wirth's book "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs." At that time, many efforts were made to prepare teachers to teach informatics in schools, and Pascal was one of the topics taught,…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Information Science Education, Algorithms, Foreign Countries
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Ritter, Frauke; Standl, Bernhard – Informatics in Education, 2023
We live in a digital age, not least accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is all the more important in our society that students learn and master the key competence of algorithmic thinking to understand the informatics concepts behind every digital phenomena and thus is able to actively shape the future. For this to be successful, concepts must…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Information Science Education, Computer Science Education, COVID-19
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Evmorfia-Iro Bartzia; Michael Lodi; Marco Sbaraglia; Simon Modeste; Viviane Durand-Guerrier; Simone Martini – Informatics in Education, 2024
In this paper, we present an activity to introduce the idea of public-key cryptography and to make pre-service STEM teachers explore fundamental informatics and mathematical concepts and methods. We follow the Theory of Didactical Situations within the Didactical Engineering methodology (both widely used in mathematics education research) to…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
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Panskyi, Taras; Korzeniewska, Ewa – Informatics in Education, 2021
In Poland, talent development is organized mainly outside or alongside the educational system. A large number of privately funded informatics contests and extra-curricular talent development programs for highly motivated students are available. However, traditional competitions also exist including national informatics Olympiads and competitions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competition, Information Science Education, Talent Development
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Bubica, Nikolina; Boljat, Ivica – Informatics in Education, 2022
The new Croatian Informatics curriculum, which introduces computational thinking concepts into learning outcomes has been put into practice. A computational thinking assessment model reflecting the learning outcomes of the Croatian curriculum was created using an evidence-centered design approach. The possibility of assessing the computational…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries, Information Science Education, Computer Science Education