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Contributing to General Education by Teaching Informatics

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Informatics Education – The Bridge between Using and Understanding Computers (ISSEP 2006)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNTCS,volume 4226))

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What is informatics? What are its main contributions, and which results of informatics are fundamental knowledge about the functioning of our world? Why should computer science be part of the school curriculum and which topics should be introduced? How does teaching informatics contribute to the pupils’ way of thinking? In this article, we search for possible answers to these questions.

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  1. Information Technology and Education, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, ETH Zentrum, CAB F16, Zurich, Switzerland

    Juraj Hromkovič

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  1. Institut für Informatik-Systeme, Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Roland T. Mittermeir

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Hromkovič, J. (2006). Contributing to General Education by Teaching Informatics. In: Mittermeir, R.T. (eds) Informatics Education – The Bridge between Using and Understanding Computers. ISSEP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4226. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11915355_3

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