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Informatics and General Education

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Informatics in Schools. Teaching and Learning Perspectives (ISSEP 2014)

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Computer Science, Informatics, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Computational Thinking, Digital Literacy and New Media are just some examples of buzz words which are used and discussed in schools by educators and by political authorities responsible for updating curricula. In many schools informatics is still missing as a basic subject. STEM education still concentrates on teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In this paper we show that informatics has to become a basic subject in the context of general education in our schools.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Walter Gander

  2. Computer Science Department, Baptist University, Hong Kong

    Walter Gander

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  1. Department of Informatics, Ankara University, Fatih Cad. No: 33, 06110, Ankara, Turkey

    Yasemin Gülbahar  & Erinç Karataş  & 

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Gander, W. (2014). Informatics and General Education. In: Gülbahar, Y., Karataş, E. (eds) Informatics in Schools. Teaching and Learning Perspectives. ISSEP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8730. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09958-3_1

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