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2024-04-22 more news

Book on Effective Computer Science Education (“Wirksamer Informatikunterricht”)”

Wirksamer Informatikunterricht
I have edited a book containing 20 interviews with 21 Computer Science teachers and didactics professors from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland on how to teach Computer Science at different levels of K–12 education. The German book has just appeared in “Schneider Verlag Hohengehren.”

Contributions are from Armin Barth, Andreas Bollin, Dirk Bongartz, Bernhard Brunner, Jens Gallenbacher, Susanne Grabowski, Mareen Grillenberger, Juraj Hromkovič, Tobias Kohn, Peter Micheuz, Corinna Mößlacher, Arno Pasternak, Alexander Repenning, Marianne Rohrer, Patric Rousselot, Carsten Schulte, Bernadette Spieler, Jacqueline Staub, Jörg Steinhäuser, Jan Vahrenhold, and Nils van den Boom.

The interviews all contain the same 10 questions that address both opportunities and challenges of having Computer Science as an integral part of K–12 curricula. I conclude with a summary of common themes and differences in the interviews. Surprisingly, there is a lot agreement with respect to many of the central topics such as the importance of computational thinking or how Computer Science can contribute to general education.