scholarly journals Notional Machines in Computing Education

Author(s):  
Sally Fincher ◽  
Johan Jeuring ◽  
Craig S. Miller ◽  
Peter Donaldson ◽  
Benedict du Boulay ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 57-79
Author(s):  
Tetsuro KAKESHITA ◽  
Mika OHTSUKI

We conducted the first national survey of computing education at Japanese universities in 2016. In this paper, we report the survey result of the computing education at non-IT departments and faculties whose major subject is not computing. The survey covers various aspects of computing education including program organization, quality and quantity of educational achievement, students, teaching staff and computing environment. We collected 994 answers through the survey. At least 87,000 non-ICT students are taking computing education in Japan. Although computing education is carried out at every major academic discipline, teaching effort greatly differs depending on the academic discipline. We also find shortage of teaching staff for computing education. The analysis result will be an essential input to develop reasonable curriculum guidelines and accreditation criteria to improve computing education at non-IT departments.


Author(s):  
Christiane Gresse Von Wangenheim ◽  
Nathalia Cruz Alves ◽  
Pedro Eurico Rodrigues ◽  
Jean Carlo Hauck

In order to be well-educated citizens in the 21st century, children need to learn computing in school. However, implementing computing education in schools faces several practical problems, such as lack of computing teachers and time in an already overloaded curriculum. A solution can be a multidisciplinary approach, integrating computing education within other subjects in the curriculum. The present study proposes an instructional unit for computing education in social studies classes, with students learning basic computing concepts by programming history related games using Scratch. The instructional unit is developed following an instructional design approach and is applied and evaluated through a case study in four classes (5th and 7th grade) with a total of 105 students at a school in (omitted for submission). Results provide a first indication that the instructional unit enables the learning of basic computing concepts (specifically programming) in an efficient, effective and entertaining way increasing also the interest and motivation of students to learn computing.


ACM Inroads ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-43
Author(s):  
Josh Tenenberg
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Author(s):  
Rajendra K. Raj ◽  
Carol J. Romanowski ◽  
John Impagliazzo ◽  
Sherif G. Aly ◽  
Brett A. Becker ◽  
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Author(s):  
Rajendra K. Raj ◽  
Carol J. Romanowski ◽  
Sherif G. Aly ◽  
Brett A. Becker ◽  
Juan Chen ◽  
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