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A New Interactive Computer Science Textbook in Slovenia

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Informatics in Schools: Improvement of Informatics Knowledge and Perception (ISSEP 2016)

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Abstract

Informatics is only a mandatory course in the first year and elective in the remaining three years in Slovene general secondary schools (grades 9–12). The course curriculum lists 100 learning objectives for all four years, but it does not specify the ones for the first (mandatory) year. Although this gives Computer Science teachers the freedom to choose the topics to be covered, they usually choose the ones covering digital literacy. One of the reasons is that this is the most important topic in the eighteen-year-old textbook that is currently used to teach Computer Science. In this paper we discuss a new interactive textbook that was introduced and the areas of knowledge it covers. We also discuss e-textbooks as a technology in general and give some feedback from teachers after the first year of using the new textbook.

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  1. Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Nataša Mori

  2. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Matija Lokar

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    Andrej Brodnik

  2. University Paris-Saclay , Cachan, France

    Françoise Tort

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Mori, N., Lokar, M. (2016). A New Interactive Computer Science Textbook in Slovenia. In: Brodnik, A., Tort, F. (eds) Informatics in Schools: Improvement of Informatics Knowledge and Perception. ISSEP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9973. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46747-4_14

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