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Computational Thinking in Small Packages

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Informatics in Schools. Engaging Learners in Computational Thinking (ISSEP 2020)

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This article describes an approach to foster computational thinking in different school subjects. Our approach includes several teaching units (packages) that are self-contained and have been designed for university courses attended by prospective and graduate primary and secondary school teachers. Around 30 packages have been designed so far and together cover eight aspects of computational thinking in six different subjects. In this report, some examples are sketched out together with the experiences gathered.

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  1. PH Graubünden, Chur, Switzerland

    Dennis Komm, Bernhard Matter & Jacqueline Staub

  2. Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Dennis Komm, Jacqueline Staub & Nicole Trachsler

  3. FH Graubünden, Chur, Switzerland

    Ulrich Hauser

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Komm, D., Hauser, U., Matter, B., Staub, J., Trachsler, N. (2020). Computational Thinking in Small Packages. In: Kori, K., Laanpere, M. (eds) Informatics in Schools. Engaging Learners in Computational Thinking. ISSEP 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12518. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63212-0_14

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