Informatics in Schools Teaching and Learning Perspectives - 7th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, September 22-25, 2014. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2014, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in September 2014. The 13 full papers presented together with 2 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The focus of the conference was on following topics: Competence Science Education, Competence Measurement for Informatics, Emerging Technologies and Tools for Informatics, Teacher Education in Informatics, and Curriculum Issues.

List of contents

Keynotes.- Informatics and General Education.- The Many Facets of Scratch.- Computer Science Education.- Bebras Informatics Contest: Criteria for Good Tasks Revised.- Big Data - Challenges for Computer Science Education.- Analysis of Computer Science Education in Venezuela using the Darmstadt Model.- "Computer Science in Context" and "Learning Fields" in Vocational Computer Science Education {Two Unlike Siblings?.- Reasoning on Children's Cognitive Skills in an Informatics Contest: Findings and Discoveries from Finland, Lithuania, and Sweden.- A high-availability Bebras Competition System.- Competence Measurement for Informatics.- Competence Orientation in Vocational Schools the Case of Industrial Information Technology in Austria.- Measuring Student Competences in German Upper Secondary Computer Science Education.- Emerging Technologies and Tools for Informatics.- Pupils in the Virtual World and Education.- Introducing Students to Recursion: a Multi-facet and Multi-tool Approach.- Teacher Education in Informatics.-A Present-Day "Glass Bead Game": A Framework for the Education of Prospective Informatics Teachers inspired by a Reaction on the Nature of the Discipline.- Teacher Profiles for Planning Informatics Lessons.- Curriculum Issues.-Extracurricular activities for improving the perception of Informatics in Secondary schools.

Product details

• Assisted by: Yasemi Gülbahar (Editor), Yasemin Gülbahar (Editor), Erinç Karata (Editor), Erinç Karata¿ (Editor), Karatas (Editor), Karatas (Editor), Erinç Karatas (Editor), Erinç Karataş (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9783319099576
• ISBN: 978-3-31-909957-6
• No. of pages: 173
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 237 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 301 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 173 p. 46 illus.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues; Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries