Informatics in Schools: Improvement of Informatics Knowledge and Perception : 9th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2016, Münster, Germany, October 13-15, 2016, Proceedings

This Book Constitutes The Refereed Proceedings Of The 9th International Conference On Informatics In Schools: Situation, Evolution, And Perspectives, Issep 2016, Held In Münster, Germany, In October 2015. The 17 Full Papers Presented Together With 1 Invited Talk Were Carefully Reviewed And Selected From 50 Submissions. The Focus Of The Conference Was On Following Topics: Sustainable Education In Informatics For Pupils Of All Ages; Connecting Informatics Lessons To The Students’ Everyday Lives; Teacher Education In Informatics Or Computer Science; And Research On Informatics Or Computer Science In Schools (empirical/qualitative/quantitative/theory Building/research Methods/comparative Studies/transferability Of Methods And Results From Other Disciplines). Teaching Computer Image Processing Subject To Middle School Students: Cognitive And Affective Aspects -- Analyzing Conceptual Content Of International Informatics Curricula For Secondary Education -- It’s Computational Thinking! Bebras Tasks In The Curriculum -- Comparing The Performance Of Girls And Boys In Bebras Challenge -- Attitudes Towards Computer Science In Secondary Education: Evaluation Of An Introductory Course -- Typifying Informatics Teachers’ Pck Of Designing Digital Artefacts In Dutch Upper Secondary Education -- Students’ Success In The Bebras Challenge In Lithuania: Focus On A Long-term Participation -- What Makes Situational Informatics Tasks Difficult -- A New Informatics Curriculum For Secondary Education In The Netherlands -- And Now What Do We Do With Our Schoolchildren -- Defining And Observing Modeling And Simulation In Informatics -- K-12 Computer Science Education Across The U.s -- Combining The Power Of Python With The Simplicity Of Logo For A Sustainable Computer Science Education -- A New Interactive Computer Science Textbook In Slovenia -- Computer Science In The Eyes Of Its Teachers In French-speaking Switzerland -- It2school - Development Of Teaching Materials For Cs Through Design Thinking -- ”why Can’t I Learn Programming?” – The Learning And Teaching Environment Of Programming. . Edited By Andrej Brodnik, Françoise Tort. Front Matter....Pages I-XII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Teaching Computer Image Processing Subject to Middle School Students: Cognitive and Affective Aspects....Pages 3-13 Analyzing Conceptual Content of International Informatics Curricula for Secondary Education....Pages 14-27 It’s Computational Thinking! Bebras Tasks in the Curriculum....Pages 28-39 How to Attract the Girls: Gender-Specific Performance and Motivation in the Bebras Challenge....Pages 40-52 Attitudes Towards Computer Science in Secondary Education: Evaluation of an Introductory Course....Pages 53-64 Typifying Informatics Teachers’ PCK of Designing Digital Artefacts in Dutch Upper Secondary Education....Pages 65-77 Students’ Success in the Bebras Challenge in Lithuania: Focus on a Long-Term Participation....Pages 78-89 What Makes Situational Informatics Tasks Difficult?....Pages 90-101 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 A New Informatics Curriculum for Secondary Education in The Netherlands....Pages 105-117 And Now What Do We Do with Our Schoolchildren?....Pages 118-129 Defining and Observing Modeling and Simulation in Informatics....Pages 130-141 K-12 Computer Science Education Across the U.S.....Pages 142-154 Combining the Power of Python with the Simplicity of Logo for a Sustainable Computer Science Education....Pages 155-166 A New Interactive Computer Science Textbook in Slovenia....Pages 167-178 Computer Science in the Eyes of Its Teachers in French-Speaking Switzerland....Pages 179-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 IT2School – Development of Teaching Materials for CS Through Design Thinking....Pages 193-198 “Why Can’t I Learn Programming?” The Learning and Teaching Environment of Programming....Pages 199-204 Back Matter....Pages 205-205 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2016, held in Munster, Germany, in October 2015.The 17 full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions.