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Introducing Informatics in Primary Education: Curriculum and Teachers’ Perspectives

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Informatics in Schools. New Ideas in School Informatics (ISSEP 2019)

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Informatics and especially its nowadays leading part, computational thinking, becomes an important and universal competence within the debate on 21st century skills and addresses the concepts and learning goals of Informatics (Computing or Computer Science). There are initiatives appearing worldwide that tend to include Informatics into early education. In this paper, we analyze implementation of Informatics as well as developing computational thinking competence on a primary school level. We survey the situation on Informatics in primary education in different countries (52 countries included), discuss the structure of draft curriculum for Informatics in primary education developed in Lithuania, and study primary teachers’ readiness to integrate Informatics into primary education.

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  • 11 November 2019

    In the original version of this paper the affiliation was correct only for the author Valentina Dagienė. For authors Tatjana Jevsikova and Gabrielė Stupurienė affiliation has been corrected to:

    Vilnius University Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies, Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Acknowledgement

We would like to express gratitude to the all international experts who took part in the survey on Informatics in primary education for active participation and collaboration. We also thank Education Development Center of Lithuania for the support of the research on primary teacher readiness to introduce Informatics in primary school.

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  1. Vilnius University Institute of Educational Sciences, Universiteto 9, 01513, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Valentina Dagienė

  2. Vilnius University Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Tatjana Jevsikova & Gabrielė Stupurienė

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  1. Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Sergei N. Pozdniakov

  2. Data Science Institute, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Valentina Dagienė

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Dagienė, V., Jevsikova, T., Stupurienė, G. (2019). Introducing Informatics in Primary Education: Curriculum and Teachers’ Perspectives. In: Pozdniakov, S., Dagienė, V. (eds) Informatics in Schools. New Ideas in School Informatics. ISSEP 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11913. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33759-9_7

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