TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dagiene, Valentina
A1  - Stupuriene, Gabriele
T1  - Informatics Education based on Solving Attractive Tasks through a Contest
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - The paper discusses the issue of supporting informatics
(computer science) education through competitions for lower and
upper secondary school students (8–19 years old). Competitions play
an important role for learners as a source of inspiration, innovation,
and attraction. Running contests in informatics for school students
for many years, we have noticed that the students consider the contest
experience very engaging and exciting as well as a learning experience.
A contest is an excellent instrument to involve students in problem
solving activities. An overview of infrastructure and development
of an informatics contest from international level to the national one
(the Bebras contest on informatics and computer fluency, originated
in Lithuania) is presented. The performance of Bebras contests in 23
countries during the last 10 years showed an unexpected and unusually
high acceptance by school students and teachers. Many thousands of
students participated and got a valuable input in addition to their regular
informatics lectures at school. In the paper, the main attention is paid
to the developed tasks and analysis of students’ task solving results in
Lithuania.
KW  - Informatics Education
KW  - Computer Science Education
KW  - Tasks
KW  - Tests
KW  - Contest
KW  - Problem Solving
KW  - Cognitive Skills
KW  - Bloom’s Taxonomy
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-82626
SN  - 1868-0844
SN  - 2191-1940
IS  - 7
SP  - 97
EP  - 115
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Micheuz, Peter
T1  - Discussing Educational Standards for Digital Competence and/or Informatics Education at Lower Secondary Level
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - Participants of this workshop will be confronted exemplarily
with a considerable inconsistency of global Informatics education at
lower secondary level. More importantly, they are invited to contribute
actively on this issue in form of short case studies of their countries.
Until now, very few countries have been successful in implementing
Informatics or Computing at primary and lower secondary level. The
spectrum from digital literacy to informatics, particularly as a discipline
in its own right, has not really achieved a breakthrough and seems to
be underrepresented for these age groups. The goal of this workshop
is not only to discuss the anamnesis and diagnosis of this fragmented
field, but also to discuss and suggest viable forms of therapy in form of
setting educational standards. Making visible good practices in some
countries and comparing successful approaches are rewarding tasks for
this workshop.
Discussing and defining common educational standards on a transcontinental
level for the age group of 14 to 15 years old students in a readable,
assessable and acceptable form should keep the participants of this
workshop active beyond the limited time at the workshop.
KW  - Educational Standards
KW  - Digital Competence
KW  - Informatics Education
KW  - Computing
KW  - Lower Secondary Level
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-83008
SN  - 1868-0844
SN  - 2191-1940
IS  - 7
SP  - 425
EP  - 431
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hofuku, Yayoi
A1  - Cho, Shinya
A1  - Nishida, Tomohiro
A1  - Kanemune, Susumu
A1  - Linck, Barbara
A1  - Kim, Seungyon
A1  - Park, Seongbin
A1  - Vaníček, Jiří
A1  - Gujberová, Monika
A1  - Tomcsányi, Peter
A1  - Dagiene, Valentina
A1  - Jevsikova, Tatjana
A1  - Schulte, Carsten
A1  - Sentance, Sue
A1  - Thota, Neena
A1  - Gülbahar, Yasemin
A1  - İlkhan, Mustafa
A1  - Kilis, Selcan
A1  - Arslan, Okan
A1  - Nakano, Yoshiaki
A1  - Izutsu, Katsunobu
A1  - Lessner, Daniel
A1  - Reffay, Christophe
A1  - Miled, Mahdi
A1  - Ortiz, Pascal
A1  - Février, Loïc
A1  - Grgurina, Nataša
A1  - Weise, Martin
A1  - Bellettini, Carlo
A1  - Lonati, Violetta
A1  - Malchiodi, Dario
A1  - Monga, Mattia
A1  - Morpurgo, Anna
A1  - Torelli, Mauro
A1  - Planteu, Lukas
A1  - Standl, Bernhard
A1  - Grossmann, Wilfried
A1  - Neuwirth, Erich
A1  - Benacka, Jan
A1  - Ragonis, Noa
A1  - Hodges, Steve
A1  - Berry, Carol
A1  - Kusterer, Peter
ED  - Diethelm, Ira
ED  - Arndt, Jannik
ED  - Dünnebier, Malte
ED  - Syrbe, Jörn
T1  - Informatics in schools : local proceedings of the 6th International Conference ISSEP 2013 ; selected papers ; Oldenburg, Germany, February 26–March 2, 2013
N2  - The International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives – ISSEP – is a forum for researchers and practitioners in the area of Informatics education, both in primary and secondary schools. It provides an opportunity for educators to reflect upon the goals and objectives of this subject, its curricula and various teaching/learning paradigms and topics, possible connections to everyday life and various ways of establishing Informatics Education in schools. This conference also cares about teaching/learning materials, various forms of assessment, traditional and innovative educational research designs, Informatics’ contribution to the preparation of children for the 21st century, motivating competitions, projects and activities supporting informatics education in school.
T3  - Commentarii informaticae didacticae (CID) - 6 
KW  - ISSEP
KW  - Informatics Education
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-63688
SN  - 978-3-86956-222-3
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -