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  -