WiPSE '13Pub Date : 2013-11-11DOI: 10.1145/2532748.2532776
Bernhard Standl
{"title":"Conceptual patterns for student-centered computer science education at secondary school level","authors":"Bernhard Standl","doi":"10.1145/2532748.2532776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2532748.2532776","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an approach how student-centered computer science lessons at secondary school level were captured and described as a collection of 24 patterns. This pattern network is supposed to support computer science teachers in designing student-centered computer science lessons. Each pattern emerged from an iterative process of combining practical classroom experiences with humanistic pedagogical theories. The pattern form is based on C. Alexander's approach [2] and was modified for computer science education. Hence a pattern includes a title, description, problem, forces, solution, UML visualization and a suggestion how to apply it in computer science lessons.","PeriodicalId":386540,"journal":{"name":"WiPSE '13","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130499581","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}
WiPSE '13Pub Date : 2013-11-11DOI: 10.1145/2532748.2532763
P. K. Antonitsch, Cornelia Gigacher, Liselotte Hanisch, B. Sabitzer
{"title":"A media-reduced approach towards informatics at primary level","authors":"P. K. Antonitsch, Cornelia Gigacher, Liselotte Hanisch, B. Sabitzer","doi":"10.1145/2532748.2532763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2532748.2532763","url":null,"abstract":"At the moment, informatics education stretches downward to reach primary education. This article emphasizes computational thinking, focuses upon goals of primary education and unveils how to connect to existing teaching and learning patterns when integrating computational thinking into primary education. Furthermore, a framework is sketched to combine computational thinking with computational doing in a media-reduced way.","PeriodicalId":386540,"journal":{"name":"WiPSE '13","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115836818","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}
WiPSE '13Pub Date : 2013-11-11DOI: 10.1145/2532748.2532749
Simone Opel, T. Brinda
{"title":"Arguments for contextual teaching with learning fields in vocational IT schools: results of an interview study among IT and CS training companies","authors":"Simone Opel, T. Brinda","doi":"10.1145/2532748.2532749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2532748.2532749","url":null,"abstract":"Professional IT education and training in Germany consists primarily of two parts: students attend part time vocational school and work as apprentices and employees at their training companies. To promote learning venue cooperation between the partners of vocational education, the curricula in the fields of computer science (CS) and information and communication technologies (IT) are arranged in so-called \"Lernfelder\"(learning fields), which are supposed to be put into practice by using learning situations. Those are based on real-life working processes and allow contextual learning. Unfortunately, teachers are not putting this idea into practice; one reason for their non-adoption of the concept is a lack of appropriate teaching material which would support them. The interview study we describe in this paper explores the apprentices' IT/CS-related working processes and working environments in various selected training companies. Its results were used to correlate the curriculum's aims and the covered occupational working processes. This is one step further in a larger project that strives to develop exemplary learning situations and helpful tools for several learning fields to support teachers in creating lessons for vocational IT and CS training.","PeriodicalId":386540,"journal":{"name":"WiPSE '13","volume":"48 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114593866","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}
WiPSE '13Pub Date : 2013-11-11DOI: 10.1145/2532748.2532779
Sven Alisch
{"title":"Results of an expert interview as foundation for a study about the pedagogical added value by informatics in context","authors":"Sven Alisch","doi":"10.1145/2532748.2532779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2532748.2532779","url":null,"abstract":"The topic of this article is an interface between didactics and theoretical concepts of informatics. It describes Pedagogical Added Value and investigates how it can be defined, characterized and quantified. The basis of this research is a theoretical semester focusing on language translation. The analysis uses a guided interview to qualitatively describe the experiences of six Hamburg teachers. Based on these results, future research steps are proposed.","PeriodicalId":386540,"journal":{"name":"WiPSE '13","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114520416","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}
WiPSE '13Pub Date : 2013-11-11DOI: 10.1145/2532748.2532775
E. Mentz, Roxanne Bailey, B. Breed, M. Havenga
{"title":"Empowering information technology teachers through professional development: an evaluation","authors":"E. Mentz, Roxanne Bailey, B. Breed, M. Havenga","doi":"10.1145/2532748.2532775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2532748.2532775","url":null,"abstract":"To assist Information Technology (IT) teachers in their endeavour to keep up with the rapid changes in the curriculum, we implemented two approaches to professional development. In this poster we will illustrate the comparison between the traditional training-based professional development (currently implemented to train IT teachers), our face-to-face professional development programme and our multimedia-based professional development programme by using Guskey's 21 characteristics for effective professional development. Once evaluation was completed we proposed a professional development programme incorporating the strengths of each approach evaluated in this poster.","PeriodicalId":386540,"journal":{"name":"WiPSE '13","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130260493","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}
WiPSE '13Pub Date : 2013-11-11DOI: 10.1145/2532748.2532753
Peter Hubwieser, Marc Berges, J. Magenheim, N. Schaper, Kathrin Bröker, M. Margaritis, Sigrid E. Schubert, Laura Ohrndorf
{"title":"Pedagogical content knowledge for computer science in German teacher education curricula","authors":"Peter Hubwieser, Marc Berges, J. Magenheim, N. Schaper, Kathrin Bröker, M. Margaritis, Sigrid E. Schubert, Laura Ohrndorf","doi":"10.1145/2532748.2532753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2532748.2532753","url":null,"abstract":"In the framework of a cooperation project that aims to identify the competencies required for teaching computer science in schools, we are developing a conceptualization of PCK currently. Up to now, we have derived a category system from literature and evaluated several interviews with teaching persons. In this paper, we describe the category system and the most important steps of its derivation. Further, we present the results of a survey that had investigated all curricula for CS teacher education that we had found in Germany, looking for the implementation of those categories. Furthermore, we are preparing interviews among experts about PCK, applying the Critical Incident Technique.","PeriodicalId":386540,"journal":{"name":"WiPSE '13","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122115133","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}
WiPSE '13Pub Date : 2013-11-11DOI: 10.1145/2532748.2532765
Michael Berry
{"title":"The design and implementation of a notional machine for teaching introductory programming","authors":"Michael Berry","doi":"10.1145/2532748.2532765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2532748.2532765","url":null,"abstract":"Comprehension of programming and programs is known to be a difficult task for many beginning students, with many computing courses showing significant drop out and failure rates. In this paper, we present a new notional machine design and implementation to help with understanding of programming and its dynamics for beginning learners. The notional machine offers an abstraction of the physical machine designed for comprehension and learning purposes. We introduce the notional machine and describe an implementation in BlueJ.","PeriodicalId":386540,"journal":{"name":"WiPSE '13","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125939469","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}
WiPSE '13Pub Date : 2013-11-11DOI: 10.1145/2532748.2611263
P. Curzon
{"title":"cs4fn and computational thinking unplugged","authors":"P. Curzon","doi":"10.1145/2532748.2611263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2532748.2611263","url":null,"abstract":"'Computer Science for Fun' (cs4fn) is a public engagement project aiming to both enthuse school students about inter-disciplinary computer science and support computing teachers. It started in 2005, with cs4fn resources now widely used in UK schools as well as internationally. We overview the approach cs4fn has used to inspire students and teachers. In particular we look at how not only subject knowledge but also computational thinking ideas can be taught in an integrated way using cs4fn 'unplugged' activities embedded in stories. We give two illustrative examples, one based on the problem of helping people with locked-in syndrome communicate, the second based around magic tricks.","PeriodicalId":386540,"journal":{"name":"WiPSE '13","volume":"373 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133512055","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}
WiPSE '13Pub Date : 2013-11-11DOI: 10.1145/2532748.2532769
Bern Martens, Tom Hofkens
{"title":"Positioning computer science in Flemish K-12 education: a reflection","authors":"Bern Martens, Tom Hofkens","doi":"10.1145/2532748.2532769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2532748.2532769","url":null,"abstract":"The current state of computing and computer science in Flemish K-12 education is discussed, compared to recent developments abroad, and found to leave much to be desired. Next, i22n is presented: a recently founded \"Forum for Computer Science\" aiming at remedying this situation.","PeriodicalId":386540,"journal":{"name":"WiPSE '13","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121038367","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}
WiPSE '13Pub Date : 2013-11-11DOI: 10.1145/2532748.2532758
Laura Ohrndorf, Sigrid E. Schubert
{"title":"Measurement of pedagogical content knowledge: students' knowledge and conceptions","authors":"Laura Ohrndorf, Sigrid E. Schubert","doi":"10.1145/2532748.2532758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2532748.2532758","url":null,"abstract":"Almost 30 years ago, Shulman categorized the knowledge of teachers by several categories including the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK): \"It represents the blending of content and pedagogy into an understanding of how particular topics, problems, or issues are organized, represented and adapted to the diverse interests and abilities of learners.\" [10]. The interest in research results dealing with this competency has increased in the last years. Several research projects have operationalized and measured the PCK for different subjects with notable results. They have shown discrepancies in teacher education, which need to be considered and overcome. Due to the young age of the subject computer science it will be interesting to obtain corresponding results in computer science education. In this article we present examples for test items measuring computer science teachers' PCK with main focus on the field of students' tasks and conceptions. They were developed on the base of the test instrument of the MoKoM project which was used in a large study investigating students' knowledge in computer science. Furthermore we will give an outlook on the setting of the assessment we are planning to conduct with these test items.","PeriodicalId":386540,"journal":{"name":"WiPSE '13","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129488107","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}