TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weise, Martin
T1  - A model for teaching informatics to German secondary school students in English-language bilingual education
JF  - Commentarii informaticae didacticae : (CID)
N2  - Informatics as a school subject has been virtually absent from bilingual education programs in German secondary schools. Most bilingual programs in German secondary education started out by focusing on subjects from the field of social sciences. Teachers and bilingual curriculum experts alike have been regarding those as the most suitable subjects for bilingual instruction – largely due to the intercultural perspective that a bilingual approach provides. And though one cannot deny the gain that ensues from an intercultural perspective on subjects such as history or geography, this benefit is certainly not limited to social science subjects. In consequence, bilingual curriculum designers have already begun to include other subjects such as physics or chemistry in bilingual school programs. It only seems a small step to extend this to informatics. This paper will start out by addressing potential benefits of adding informatics to the range of subjects taught as part of English-language bilingual programs in German secondary education. In a second step it will sketch out a methodological (= didactical) model for teaching informatics to German learners through English. It will then provide two items of hands-on and tested teaching material in accordance with this model. The discussion will conclude with a brief outlook on the chances and prerequisites of firmly establishing informatics as part of bilingual school curricula in Germany.
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-64568
SN  - 1868-0844
SN  - 2191-1940
IS  - 6
SP  - 127
EP  - 137
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bellettini, Carlo
A1  - Lonati, Violetta
A1  - Malchiodi, Dario
A1  - Monga, Mattia
A1  - Morpurgo, Anna
A1  - Torelli, Mauro
T1  - What you see is what you have in mind
BT  - constructing mental models for formatted text processing
JF  - Commentarii informaticae didacticae : (CID)
N2  - In this paper we report on our experiments in teaching computer science concepts with a mix of tangible and abstract object manipulations. The goal we set ourselves was to let pupils discover the challenges one has to meet to automatically manipulate formatted text. We worked with a group of 25 secondary school pupils (9-10th grade), and they were actually able to “invent” the concept of mark-up language. From this experiment we distilled a set of activities which will be replicated in other classes (6th grade) under the guidance of maths teachers.
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-64612
SN  - 1868-0844
SN  - 2191-1940
IS  - 6
SP  - 139
EP  - 147
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -