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In the study herein, Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK), a framework that extends the conceptualization of Pedagogical Content Knowledge, was adopted in order to teach three computer science concepts, namely, "Data," "Processing," and "...

PCK (Pedagogical Content Knowledge) is that special mixture of deep content knowledge and deep pedagogical knowledge which results in specialized knowledge around a subject that grows with the years of teaching experience. We present our approach to ...

In this paper, we aim to discuss the role of programming as substantial part of the What and the How of teaching computing at school. In contrast to other approaches, we aim to do so from an outside perspective, which is based on a discussion of general ...

Comprehension of programming and programs is known to be a difficult task for many beginning students, with many computing courses showing significant drop out and failure rates. In this paper, we present a new notional machine design and implementation ...

The topic of this article is an interface between didactics and theoretical concepts of informatics. It describes Pedagogical Added Value and investigates how it can be defined, characterized and quantified. The basis of this research is a theoretical ...

Computational Thinking is regarded as a necessary analytical skill for young people in the present day information society. We report on an ongoing design research project on Computational Thinking (CT) skills in Dutch secondary computer science (CS) ...

The recent introduction of a radically updated national secondary school curriculum in computer science (CS) and information technology (IT) has left many New Zealand high school teachers unprepared and anxious. At Otago Polytechnic, we are currently ...

The current state of computing and computer science in Flemish K-12 education is discussed, compared to recent developments abroad, and found to leave much to be desired. Next, i22n is presented: a recently founded "Forum for Computer Science" aiming at ...

To assist Information Technology (IT) teachers in their endeavour to keep up with the rapid changes in the curriculum, we implemented two approaches to professional development. In this poster we will illustrate the comparison between the traditional ...

In this paper we propose sAccess, a web-based learning tool for database education. It focuses on introductory computer science education for high school and college. sAccess has an easy-to-use query interface for manipulating databases. Using this tool,...

Inspired by CS Unplugged [1] project that is aimed at presenting important topics in computing, without using computers, we have developed a new supplementary activity on symmetric key encryption. One may use this activity to give a broader ...

This paper deals with the classification of assignments according to their type. In contrast to other publications, we derive assignment types not deductively, but extract them empirically from different sources. Our main research question is: What ...

This work presents an approach how student-centered computer science lessons at secondary school level were captured and described as a collection of 24 patterns. This pattern network is supposed to support computer science teachers in designing student-...

'Computer Science for Fun' (cs4fn) is a public engagement project aiming to both enthuse school students about inter-disciplinary computer science and support computing teachers. It started in 2005, with cs4fn resources now widely used in UK schools as ...

Well-designed educational games (both online and offline) can be a valuable way to engage students with a topic. However, games can also be a time-consuming distraction, so it is useful to be able to identify which are suitable. This paper provides ...

This paper is about an attempt to introduce some of the ideas and way of thinking of computer science in the middle school, through an assortment of extra-curricular activities built around Nimrod, a computer game ante litteram (1951), its historical ...

Non-determinism (ND) is a fundamental concept in computer science, and comes in two main flavors. One is the kind of ND that appears in automata theory and formal languages. The other, which we term operative, appears in non-deterministic programming ...

This paper focuses on pedagogy for teaching acceptance testing to high school students in the context of the new New Zealand computer science standards. A review of resources that are currently available for teaching acceptance testing to high school ...

Computer programming has become an important skill and it can be taught from early school years. Previous research has developed and evaluated several visual programming tools that are suitable for computer education in schools. However, little is known ...

While more and more countries worldwide have realized that computer science is a discipline that high-school students should be exposed to and, at the same time, awareness of the need for designated computer science teacher preparation programs has ...

Computer science was progressively introduced as a subject in New Zealand high schools between 2011 and 2013, and teachers have played a key role in the success of the introduction of the new curriculum. This paper looks at how the process has worked ...

Informatics is COOL -- as a subject and as a tool. In this paper COOL refers to three different aspects of learning: First of all, COOL stands for "cool" in the sense of interesting, motivating or fun, topics that students like to learn and methods that ...

In the framework of a cooperation project that aims to identify the competencies required for teaching computer science in schools, we are developing a conceptualization of PCK currently. Up to now, we have derived a category system from literature and ...

Almost 30 years ago, Shulman categorized the knowledge of teachers by several categories including the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK): "It represents the blending of content and pedagogy into an understanding of how particular topics, problems, or ...

In several countries, we can recently notice increasing demand to establish modern Computer Science (CS) or Informatics or Computing education in the primary and secondary schools, which would liberate from the common ICT in education conception. In ...

At the moment, informatics education stretches downward to reach primary education. This article emphasizes computational thinking, focuses upon goals of primary education and unveils how to connect to existing teaching and learning patterns when ...

Professional IT education and training in Germany consists primarily of two parts: students attend part time vocational school and work as apprentices and employees at their training companies. To promote learning venue cooperation between the partners ...

The German vocational education is based on cooperation between training companies and vocational schools. To consider the ever-expanding demand on professional action competency, the curriculum of vocational schools also defines so-called learning ...