FIRST PROGRAMMING WITH OZOBOTS - A CREATIVE APPROACH TO EARLY COMPUTER SCIENCE IN PRIMARY EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Tengler ◽  
Barbara Sabitzer ◽  
Oliver Kastner-Hauler
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Early Computer

scholarly journals EXPERIENCE OF ICT IMPLEMENTATION IN PRIMARY CURRICULUM IN UKRAINE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-55
Author(s):  
Ірина Василівна Борисенко ◽  
Оксана Павлівна Биконя ◽  
Ольга Олександрівна Рембач ◽  
Лариса Петрівна Шумна ◽  
Олександр Іванович Олійник ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
National Standards ◽  
European Countries ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Ict Implementation

The study was formulated within the context of an increasing recognition of ICT as curriculum priorities in primary schools of many European countries. The implementation of ICT-centered curriculum is a step towards realizing the goals of the new Law of Ukraine “On Education” (2017), National Strategy for the Development of Education in Ukraine until 2021, European strategic programme “Education and Training 2020”. Actuality of approaches to ICT implementation in present-day primary schools is caused by the substantial development of digital technologies and requirement of digital literacy for people’s work, social, and personal lives. The unique opportunity of primary education as a large sub-sector of any education system is to contribute to the renewal of societies through education of the young. The paper aims to study implementation of Computer science into national standard of primary education in Ukraine and the UK. In the recent years, many European countries have seen some changes of the content one of which relates to the area of computer science education that resulted in implementing an ambitious new curriculum in this subject. The author gives a comparative analysis of primary ICT within national standards in term of the Computer science development from the initial stage to present day situation. The comparative analysis specifies areas of similarities (aims, objectives, approaches to implementation, priorities of developing digital skills, teaching hours) and differences (programme topics, characterization of learning outcomes) in the study of ICT covering the subject content, expected learning results and general principles of ICT in education, as well as examples of ICT implementation. The paper is also focused at discussing the role of the ICT curriculum in modern-day primary classroom; advantages and disadvantages of ICT integration at primary stage. Much attention is paid to how it is integrated into daily learning modes to allow and encourage active learning. In primary education there are two main models of ICT implementation into curriculum, these are: ICT integrated across the curriculum; ICT (or Informatics, Computer Science and Computing) as a discrete subject within national standard.

scholarly journals Micro: Bit as a Tool for Improvement of Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Dragana Stanojević ◽  
Aleksandra Rosić ◽  
Branislav Ranđelović ◽  
Željko Stanković
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Process Use ◽  
Professional Challenges ◽  
The Uk

Technical education and Computer science education is easier to understand and more meaningful to learn using new teaching materials. This paper describes the use of miniature Micro: bit computers, developed by the British company BBC, in cooperation with several technology companies, with a purpose to increase the number of technologically educated people. Paper presents possible use of Micro: bit in teaching technical and informatics education and its impact on the development of digital competence. Micro: bit is already used in schools in the UK and part of teachers in Serbia had the opportunity to get acquainted with characteristics of this device. It is shown how students can try out the programming in the Microsoft Block Editor. Another benefit of this mini-computer is getting to know the basics of robotics. The curriculum in primary education enables the use of such tools in teaching process. Use of this tool and others, similar to it, in work with students, creates the atmosphere in school that is oriented towards new technologies. The simplicity of this mini-computer allows the student to become familiar with different professional challenges that can help them with choosing a future profession.

A Brief Discussion on Incentives and Barriers to Computational Thinking Education

2022 ◽  
pp. 253-269
Author(s):  
Hüseyin Özçınar
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Computer Programming ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skill ◽  
Logo Programming ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Algorithmic Thinking

The idea that computational thinking or algorithmic thinking should be taught to everyone dates back to the 1960s. First in 1960s, Alan Perlis argued that computer programming should be taught to everyone because it can be used as a mental tool for understanding and solving every kind of problem. In 1980s, under the leadership of Seymour Papert, students at the level of primary education were attempted to be taught LOGO programming language with the aim of gaining procedural thinking skill. After the publication of Jeannette Wing's “computational thinking” in Communications of the ACM in 2006, the idea that the basic concepts of computer science should be learned by all was started to be debated widely again. In the present paper, the justifications for teaching computational thinking and applicability of teaching computational thinking within the context of existing conditions will be discussed.

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