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Recently in many countries educators and families have raised a question about what is the real effect of new smart technologies in the learning outcomes of the school education. Obviously, the smartphones and services provided by them are considered to pose a threat to the traditional teaching and learning. There are a lot of discussions in media about this topic. Following the trends, the educational authorities are producing new types of policy papers to tackle the issue. The computer play industry is flourishing, and consequently computer programming is becoming a more and more popular subject in the schools.
Although informatics is not taught as a discipline in many countries, school students are invited to participate in an informal training and different contests on informatics organized all over the world. Contests are exceptionally valuable for motivating and...
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Dagiene, V., Koivisto, J. (2019). International Olympiads in Informatics. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60013-0_25-1
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