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An Educational Setting to improve Students’ Understanding of Fundamental Computer Architecture Concepts 提高学生对基本计算机体系结构概念理解的教育环境

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Informatics in Education Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2023.16

C. Kyriakou, A. Gogoulou, M. Grigoriadou

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Help students learn interpreted Petri nets with Minecraft 帮助学生用Minecraft学习解释Petri网

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Informatics in Education Pub Date : 2022-07-22 DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2023.13

I. Grobelna, M. Mazurkiewicz, Damian Janus

{"title":"Help students learn interpreted Petri nets with Minecraft","authors":"I. Grobelna, M. Mazurkiewicz, Damian Janus","doi":"10.15388/infedu.2023.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/infedu.2023.13","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Petri nets are a formal specification technique for modelling of control processes and modern flexible manufacturing systems. Interpreted Petri nets take into account input and output signals, allowing to apply them in any control system or even in control part of a cyber-physical system. Due to the fact that Petri nets are not used in the industrial practice, the students sometimes lack motivation to learn them. Contributions: In the paper we propose how to help students learn interpreted Petri nets with Minecraft (as a game-based learning). We show how interpreted Petri nets can be modelled in Minecraft and how they communicate with the surrounding environment via input and output signals to visualize control processes. The proposed approach has been validated experimentally among university students. Hypotheses: (1) Creating interpreted Petri net models with Minecraft helps to understand the basic principles; (2) Minecraft makes the course more attractive. Methodology: Students were divided into an experimental group (with game-based learning) and a control group (with traditional learning). The experimental group filled in a knowledge test twice (on the entry and on the exit) and a questionnaire. The control group filled in the same knowledge test at the end of the course. Findings: The observations confirm that the Minecraft-based teaching of interpreted Petri nets allows to gain better results in final tests, making at the same time the course more attractive and enjoyable.","PeriodicalId":45270,"journal":{"name":"Informatics in Education","volume":"29 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83599589","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}

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A Second Experimental Study the Application of a Teaching Plan for the Algorithms Subject in an Undergraduate Course in Computing using Active Methodologies 主动方法在计算机本科课程算法课教学计划应用的二次实验研究

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Informatics in Education Pub Date : 2022-07-22 DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2023.12

F. Garcia, S. Oliveira, Elielton da Costa Carvalho

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Assessing the Learning of Machine Learning in K-12: A Ten-Year Systematic Mapping 评估K-12中机器学习的学习:一个十年的系统映射

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Informatics in Education Pub Date : 2022-05-28 DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2023.11

Marcelo Fernando Rauber, Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim

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Exploring the effects of near-peer teaching in robotics education: The role of STEM attitudes 探索近同伴教学对机器人教育的影响:STEM态度的作用

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Informatics in Education Pub Date : 2022-05-25 DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2023.10

Isabelle C. de Vink, J. Tolboom, O. van Beekum

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引用次数: 2

Promoting Student Competencies in Informatics Education by Combining Semantic Waves and Algorithmic Thinkingv 结合语义波与算法思维提升学生信息学教育能力

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Informatics in Education Pub Date : 2022-04-24 DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2023.07

Frauke Ritter, Bernhard Standl

{"title":"Promoting Student Competencies in Informatics Education by Combining Semantic Waves and Algorithmic Thinkingv","authors":"Frauke Ritter, Bernhard Standl","doi":"10.15388/infedu.2023.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/infedu.2023.07","url":null,"abstract":"We live in a digital age, not least accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is all the more important in our society that students learn and master the key competence of algorithmic thinking to understand the informatics concepts behind every digital phenomena and thus is able to actively shape the future. For this to be successful, concepts must be identified that can convey this key competence to all students in such a way that algorithmic thinking is integrated in the subject of informatics - beyond a pure programming course. Furthermore, based on the Legitimation Code Theory, semantic waves provide a way to develop and review lesson plans. Therefore, we planned a workshop, that follow the phases of a semantic wave addressing algorithmic problems using a blockbased programming language. Considering this, we suggest the so-called SWAT concept (Semantic Wave Algorithmic Thinking concept), which is carried out and analyzed in a workshop with students. The workshop was carried out in online format in an 8th grade of a high school during a coronavirus lockdown. The level of algorithmic thinking was measured using a pretest and posttest both in the treatment group and in a control group and with the help of the approximate adjusted fractional Bayes factors for testing informative hypotheses statistically and through a reductive, qualitative content analysis of the students’ work results (worksheets and created programs) evaluated. The semantic wave concept was measured using several cognitive load ratings of the students during the workshop and also statistically evaluated with the approximate adjusted fractional Bayes factors for testing informative hypotheses, as well as a qualitative content analysis of the worksheets. Results of this pilot study provide first insights, that the SWAT-concept can be used in combination of unplugged and plugged parts.","PeriodicalId":45270,"journal":{"name":"Informatics in Education","volume":"260 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74516826","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}

引用次数: 4

Leveraging the Pied Piper effect -The case of teaching programming to sixth-grade students via music 利用魔笛手效应——通过音乐向六年级学生教授编程的案例

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Informatics in Education Pub Date : 2022-04-24 DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2023.06

I. Lavy

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Identifying Plagiarised Programming Assignments with Detection Tool Consensus 用共识检测工具识别抄袭的编程作业

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Informatics in Education Pub Date : 2022-04-14 DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2023.05

Hayden Cheers, Yuqing Lin, Weigen Yan

引用次数: 1

Information and Communication Technologies in Education 4.0 Paradigm: a Systematic Mapping Study 信息和通信技术在教育4.0范式:一个系统的映射研究

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Informatics in Education Pub Date : 2022-03-25 DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2023.03

Leonam C. de Oliveira, G. Guerino, Leander Cordeiro de OLIVEIRA, Andrey R. Pimentel

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Effectiveness of Gamification on the Community of Inquiry Development in Online Project-based Programming Courses Conducted on Facebook 游戏化对Facebook在线项目编程课程探究性社区发展的有效性

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Informatics in Education Pub Date : 2022-03-25 DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2023.04

Servet Kılıç

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