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Machine learning (ML) has triggered major changes across a great number of computing fields. People’s lives today are full of ML-driven services: eerily accurate recommendations, ability to automatically tag one’s friends in photos, and well working ...

The discussion about informatics as a school subject and media education is almost 40 years old. In Germany for example, it was decided in the 1980s to teach ”basic information technology” in an integrated way, i.e. hidden in other subjects. This has ...

Embedding Computational Thinking (CT) in the context of various school subjects across the curriculum, not only CS or STEM, is receiving increased attention. CT skills can be instrumental in many subjects, which makes the integration an opportunity for ...

Programmable robots are engaging and fun to play with, interact with the real world, and are therefore well suited to introduce young learners to programming. Introductory robot programming languages often extend existing block-based languages such as ...

Computational thinking is increasingly introduced at primary school level, usually with some form of programming activity. In particular, educational robots provide an opportunity for engaging students with programming through hands-on experiences. ...

Since computer science is still mainly male dominated, academia, industry and education jointly seek ways to motivate and inspire girls, for example by introducing them to programming at an early age. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has forced many such ...

In order to investigate pre-service primary teachers’ mental images and beliefs about Media and Computer Science teaching, the Draw-A-Science-Teacher-Test Checklist (DASTT-C) was adapted for the field of Media and Computer Science. For this explorative ...

Learners’ conceptions of program dynamics shape their reading, writing, and debugging of code. But, the invisibility of underlying program behaviors that transform code to outcomes challenges learners. Teachers adopt notional machines, defined as ...

The BYTE Challenge is a project of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (German Informatics Society) which was held for the first time from March to June 2021 as a Computer Science competition for students from all over Germany. More than 800 students ...

Whether a centralized, distributed, or decentralized system approach is selected for Internet-based services affects sovereignty and responsibilities of users and providers alike. Therefore, computer science education can contribute to informed decision-...

This practical report explores the impact of forced learning design changes due to the Corona pandemic. At the School of Education Northwestern Switzerland over 2000 K-6 pre-service elementary school teachers got educated in computer science and computer ...

Mathematical modeling is considered a crucial skills, both in modern life and STEM education. Prior research has identified the relevance of working on complex and authentic modelings problems in education. However, up to this point, little of the ...

Teaching methods are a variety of pedagogical approaches that can be used by teachers to enable student learning in the classroom. While the efficiency of these methods largely depends on the characteristics of the individual learners and the classroom ...

Enabling students to evaluate the impacts of computing, both positive and negative, on their own lives and on society is an internationally proclaimed goal of a K-12 computing education. While recent years have seen the development of competency models ...

Computational Thinking skills along with reading, writing, and calculating skills are basic skills for children’s future. Computational Thinking has much in common with problem-solving and creative thinking in general. With regard to Karl Popper "all ...

With the new ”Curriculum 21” in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, media education and informatics have become much more important for compulsory education. However, introducing a new subject is a challenging task. Most university students had no ...

Current advances emphasize that young learners benefit from developing and applying computational thinking (CT) skills to solve problems in a variety of subjects, not limited to mathematics and science. Under this scenario, the inclusion of CT in ...

Computer Science has been introduced as a new subject in the compulsory school curriculum in Switzerland. Research on educational robotics has highlighted potentials of using robots as a hands-on tool to foster computational thinking skills. However, to ...

How should computer-based educational tools represent Machine Learning (ML) systems for didactic purposes? We address this question using constructionist learning theory and the intelligent agent paradigm of AI. ML in this context is understood as ...

ScratchJr is a block-based language intended for young children aged 5 to 7 years old. The language and its app were developed using a learner-centered approach to make it usable and understandable to children. Obviously, Early Childhood teachers using ...

Already now, pupils come into contact with many phenomena of computer science (CS), especially artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, which appear in different forms and in a variety of applications, in their everyday lives. In this work we present ...

The rising topic of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly popular in secondary schools. Due to the recent integration of AI into various school curricula, the topic is gaining more and more importance in Computer Science (CS) Education ...

This paper reports on developing deeper self-directed learning (DSDL) in a database design course, and on the factors that hindered and promoted knowledge transfer. Cognitive load theory and social constructivist theory were incorporated to enhance DSDL. ...

Computational Thinking (CT) is a fundamental and important skill set in our world and should therefore be taught and practiced in school. In this poster abstract, we present our ongoing initiative on establishing CT as a fundamental and interdisciplinary ...

Digital games are an important leisure activity for teenagers. In Germany, 72% of 12- to 19-year-olds play every day or several times a week in the year 2021. This poster abstract presents a research design to survey students’ conceptions of programming ...

The revamping of computing curricula has brought topics that had rarely been taught previously to primary school children, such as principles of functioning of the Internet. Before new lessons can be prepared for children, mapping their preconceptions ...

Students often struggle with debugging in the K-12 classroom. Supporting them individually provides a huge challenge for teachers, as they have to grasp the problem, diagnose why the student is stuck, and react with an appropriate intervention without ...

Computing education has been newly introduced at primary schools (ISCED 1) in the Czech Republic, similarly to other countries. One of the new topics refers to the Internet and how it works. Not much is known yet about how prepared pre-service primary ...

Research suggests that gender-based stereotypes in computing may develop at an early age. However, there is limited evidence on how teaching interventions can be used to increase engagement and interest, especially in computing education for young ...