Braided teaching in secondary CS education: contexts, continuity, and the role of programming

  • Authors:
  • Arno Pasternak;Jan Vahrenhold

  • Affiliations:
  • Fritz-Steinhoff Gesamtschule Hagen and Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany;Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new approach to thinking about and implementing Computer Science curricula in secondary education. The characteristic feature is to organize the items to be taught into what we call "strands" which then can be interlaced during the course. This naturally leads to a spiral curriculum in secondary Computer Science education. In the view of our proposed approach, we also comment on the role of programming in secondary education.