Bridging ICT and CS: educational standards for computer science in lower secondary education

  • Authors:
  • Torsten Brinda;Hermann Puhlmann;Carsten Schulte

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany;Leibniz-Gymnasium Altdorf, Altdorf, Germany;Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ITiCSE '09 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Recently, the importance of computer science education in secondary schools has been coming more and more into focus. Students' interests and motivation to pursue a career in CS related fields are highly influenced by school. Also beliefs in the nature of CS are influenced, and necessary foundations in knowledge and skills are built. However, a major problem is the gap between information and communication technologies (ICT) and computer science (CS). Often pupils have only experiences in ICT, and therefore develop inadequate beliefs about CS. We propose educational standards for CS in lower high school in order to bridge ICT and CS.