International School in Informatics “Junior” for IOI Training

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 187-193
Author(s):  
Marina S. TSVETKOVA ◽  
Vladimir M. KIRYUKHIN

In 2018 the IOI will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary. Over these three decades, not only the world secondary school Olympiads in informatics community have been formed, which covers more than 80 countries from all continents, but a formation of an united methodological space of the school Informatics started also. This space allows many countries today to develop school computer science education, using the experience of other countries, materials from the IOI conference journal, sites of computer science contests, and other Internet resources. This article describes a model for organizing an international training event for juniors – International School in Informatics “Junior” – ISIJ.

2012 ◽  

CACIC’11 was the seventeenth Congress in the CACIC series. It was organized by the School of Computer Science of the University of La Plata. The Congress included 11 Workshops with 148 accepted papers, 3 main Conference, 4 invited tutorials, different meetings related with Computer Science Education (Professors, PhD students, Curricula) and an International School with 5 courses. (http://www.cacic2011.edu.ar/). CACIC 2011 was organized following the traditional Congress format, with 11 Workshops covering a diversity of dimensions of Computer Science Research. Each topic was supervised by a committee of three chairs of different Universities. The call for papers attracted a total of 281 submissions. An average of 2.5 review reports were collected for each paper, for a grand total of 702 review reports that involved about 400 different reviewers. A total of 148 full papers, involving 393 authors and 77 Universities, were accepted and 25 of them were selected for this book.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Mária Bakó ◽  
Róbert Szilágyi ◽  
Gergely Ráthonyi

A felsőoktatásban megkerülhetetlen az informatika oktatása, függetlenül attól, hogy a mai diákok már a Z generációhoz tartoznak és nekik az informatika az élet szerves részét képezi. A szerzők elsődleges célkitűzése az volt, hogy megvizsgálják a felsőoktatásba bekerülő hallgatók vélt és tényleges gyakorlati tudását a táblázatkezelés tekintetében. Ennek megfelelően kialakításra került egy kérdőív és egy gyakorlati feladatsor. A kérdőívben a hallgatók korábbi informatika tanulmányaik megadásán túlmenően értékelniük kellett tudásukat szövegszerkesztés, táblázatkelés és adatbázis-kezelés területek mentén. A gyakorlati felmérés során a hallgatók egy középszintű informatika érettségi Excel feladatsort kellett megoldaniuk. A gyakorlati eredmények tekintetében megfigyelhettük, hogy a felmérésben résztvevők saját tudásuk megítélése gyakran igen nagymértékben eltér a tényleges gyakorlati tudástól. Ami a konkrét eredményeket illeti megállapítottuk, hogy hallgatók felének teljesítménye 20% alatt volt, illetve összességében közel 85%-uk 40% alatt oldotta meg a feladatsort. Elemzésünk azt is kimutatta, hogy az Informatika érettségivel rendelkező hallgatók jelentősen jobb eredményeket értek el. --- Students’ spreadsheet knowledge - differences between perceived and real knowledge Teaching Computer Science in higher education is imperative, even though today’s students can be considered to be part of generation Z where technology is an es¬sential part of everyday life. The primary objective of the authors was to examine the perceived and actual knowledge of spreadsheet applications of students entering higher education. A questionnaire and a practical test have therefore been com¬posed. In the questionnaire, students were asked to provide information concerning their previous IT studies and rate their knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets and database management. During the practical, students were asked to solve an Excel exercise taken from a secondary school Computer Science final exam at stan¬dard level. In respect to the results of the practical test there were differences between the perceived and actual knowledge of students’ spreadsheet applications. In respect to the actual results, we found that half of the students’ performance was below 20 per cent, and overall, nearly 85 per cent of them had completed the test with scores under 40 per cent. Our analysis also demonstrated that students that had graduated in Information Technology achieved significantly better results.


Author(s):  
Olivia Levrini ◽  
Paola Fantini ◽  
Eleonora Barelli ◽  
Laura Branchetti ◽  
Sara Satanassi ◽  
...  

Abstract The crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic led most people all over the world to deal with a change in their perception and organization of time. This happened also, and mainly, within the educational institutions, where students and teachers had to rearrange their teaching/learning dynamics because of the forced education at a distance. In this paper, we present an exploratory qualitative study with secondary school students aimed to investigate how they were experiencing their learning during lockdown and how, in particular, learning of science contributed to rearranging their daily lifetime rituals. In order to design and carry out our investigation, we borrowed constructs coming from a research field rather unusual for science education: the field of sociology of time. The main result concerns the discovery of the potential of the dichotomy between alienation from time and time re-appropriation. The former is a construct elaborated by the sociologist Hartmut Rosa to describe the society of acceleration in the “era of future shock”. The latter represents an elaboration of the construct of appropriation that the authors had operationally defined, starting from Bakhtin’s original idea, to describe the nexus between physics learning and identity. Thanks to the elaboration of the notion of time re-appropriation as feature of the “era of present shock”, the study unveils how school science, instead of preparing the young to navigate our fast-changing and complex society, tends to create “bubbles of rituals” that detach learning from societal concern.


Author(s):  
Benjamin S Wohl ◽  
Sophie Beck ◽  
Lynne Blair

AbstractIn these early stages of implementation of the English computing curriculum policy reforms, there are uncertainties with regards to the intentions of computing to young people. To date, research regarding the English computing curriculum has been mostly concerned with the content of the curriculum, its delivery and surrounding pedagogy. In contrast this paper seeks to explore the underlying motivation and values embedded in the computing curriculum. We propose that this curriculum has been driven by the needs of industry and the economy. We use Schwartz’s values to examine how the teaching of computing has been primarily embedded within the value of self-enhancement.  We conclude, that by looking at this context and the underlying value structure, we can reflect on the dramatic effects of the narrative and discourse around the content, delivery and purpose of teaching computing to young people. We propose the narratives of curriculum, influence pedagogy and this in turn, has a powerful impact on the young people’s view of themselves and the world we want to equip them to create.Keywords: computing curriculum, education research, subjectivity, computer science education, Schwartz’s values.                                                                                                        


2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 281-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orit Hazzan ◽  
Judith Gal-Ezer ◽  
Lenore Blum

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