Informatics Education - Supporting Computational Thinking: Third International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5090) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540699236 ISBN 13: 9783540699231

Publisher: Springer, 2008

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540699236
• ISBN 13: 9783540699231
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372
• Editor: Mittermeir Roland, Syslo Maciej M.