Felix Winkelnkemper
ABSTRACT
Knowing and understanding the world of digital artefacts we are living in is a requirement for everyone today, regardless of their general interest in technology. Computer science education, however, often treats pupils as if they all wanted to become engineers. Educational models of computer science are rather not targeted at understanding the behaviour of the digital world, but at constructing it. Our paper complements such classical approaches with an Ontology of the Digital as an approach which reconstructs digital artefacts and thereby creates a model which helps to understand and explain the technological potentials of digital artefacts without relying on minute details of the engineering discipline of computing.
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