{"title":"Computer science at post primary in Ireland: specification design and key skills integration","authors":"C. Connolly","doi":"10.1145/3265757.3265760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3265757.3265760","url":null,"abstract":"The society our children are growing up in is one which has been fundamentally transformed by new technology, consequently the curriculum in our education system must prepare them to flourish and equip them with skills for the future. The introduction of Computer Science as a Leaving Certificate subject is part of the Irish Government's overall commitment to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education to support innovation for the future prosperity of the country. It is envisaged that Computer Science will be an examinable subject made available to all schools in Ireland from September 2020. Computer Science (CS) has been introduced to post-primary schools for the first time ever in Ireland with forty schools teaching the subject in the initial phased rollout of the subject. In addition, this will be the first time Irish students will have a computerized final State examination. The high-stakes state examination at the end of post-primary level education in Ireland is known as the Leaving Certificate and the results are used to apply to third-level education institutions. This presentation will describe the development of the Computer Science specification and provide an overview of the subject, with particular attention to the integration of traditional Computer Science concepts and key skills development as part of national post primary education reforms in Ireland.","PeriodicalId":150942,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123128326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zimcke Van de Staey, Tobias Verlinde, Bart Demoen, Bern Martens
{"title":"Co-de: an online learning platform for computational thinking","authors":"Zimcke Van de Staey, Tobias Verlinde, Bart Demoen, Bern Martens","doi":"10.1145/3265757.3265790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3265757.3265790","url":null,"abstract":"Computational thinking (CT) has gained wide recognition as an important K-12 educational goal, initially in the context of computer science (CS), and more recently also beyond CS. The development of CT teaching materials and approaches is therefore of prime importance. Here, an online learning platform for CT, named Co-De, is presented. It addresses five major aspects of CT explicitly, in the context of a variety of computational problems. Students using Co-De, work through classes, individually or in teams, doing a mixture of unplugged and online exercises and quizzes, as well as some programming. Teachers can fine-tune the default Co-De learning paths to cater for their specific groups of students and/or specific learning goals. Co-De is implemented on top of the open-source learning platform Moodle. It can be used directly at a central server, or a customised version can be installed and used locally.","PeriodicalId":150942,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128653689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"I've got nothing to hide!\": survey on data privacy competence with German schoolchildren","authors":"Alexander Hug","doi":"10.1145/3265757.3265789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3265757.3265789","url":null,"abstract":"A Data Privacy Competence model had been developed ([1]) and is applied in a study with German middle school students from grade five to seven. An online survey has been conducted to measure their Data Privacy Competence accordingly. This survey yielded about 1000 useful records in total, which have been analyzed descriptively and correlatively.","PeriodicalId":150942,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129844328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are children perceiving robots as supporting or replacing humans?: first empirical results and classification of preconceptions within a theoretical framework","authors":"Kathrin Müller, Carsten Schulte","doi":"10.1145/3265757.3265767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3265757.3265767","url":null,"abstract":"The relevance of digital artifacts we encounter in our daily lives is increasing. As a result, children also encounter these systems early, so that the demand for computer science education for all children is growing. One open research question is how educational approaches can or should cope with these early experiences and resulting conceptions of digital artifacts. In this context, robots are an exemplary type of artifact. The paper presents a study on young children conceptions about robots. Results are discussed within a theoretical framework based on existing literature. In this context, the question arises whether robots are conceptualized as supporting or replacing humans. In addition, how much control humans have over these developments in general, and in their daily use of digital artifacts.","PeriodicalId":150942,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education","volume":"285 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126016404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning problem solving through educational robotics competitions: first results of an exploratory case study","authors":"Nicolai Pöhner, M. Hennecke","doi":"10.1145/3265757.3265774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3265757.3265774","url":null,"abstract":"Educational robotics competitions are an important part of extracurricular Computer Science (CS) education and gain international popularity year by year. One of the aims of these competitions as e.g. the \"World Robot Olympiad\" (WRO) or the \"First Lego League\" (FLL) is developing students' problem solving skills. Problem solving counts as important competence of today's CS education. In such competitions students are confronted with a particular educational robotics task which they need to complete. Our research aims at investigating the learning of problem solving in educational robotics competitions. In an exploratory case study we analysed the use of problem solving strategies of participating teams and their influence on the results of the teams. This work-in-progress paper presents first empirical results of our exploratory case study. They can be useful for further development of educational robotics competitions and disseminate ideas for the integration of educational robotics into CS Education in schools.","PeriodicalId":150942,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education","volume":"301 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131736573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of a robotics course with the humanoid robot NAO in CS teacher education","authors":"Nicolai Pöhner, M. Hennecke","doi":"10.1145/3265757.3265786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3265757.3265786","url":null,"abstract":"Using Educational robotics as an hands-on approach to Computer Science (CS) is very popular in international CS education. The market provides various robotics systems for CS education with regard to e.g. age group of the students. In this article we present an evaluation of a robotics course using the ready-to-use humanoid robot NAO. This humanoid robot is a 58cm tall robot with 25 degrees of freedom, various sensors (cameras, microphones, touch sensors, sonar, etc.) and can be programmed in multiple programming languages. We conducted this course over two semesters with CS teacher candidates and collected their opinion on the humanoid robot NAO with a short questionnaire at the end of the one-week course. All in all, this article provdides an insight on the teaching practice using robotics in CS education at our university and contributes to the discussion about robotics systems for the CS classroom.","PeriodicalId":150942,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127940220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}