Contributing to general education by teaching informatics

  • Authors:
  • Juraj Hromkovič

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Technology and Education, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, ETH Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • ISSEP'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspectives: the Bridge between Using and Understanding Computers
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

What is informatics? What are its main contributions, and which results of informatics are fundamental knowledge about the functioning of our world? Why should computer science be part of the school curriculum and which topics should be introduced? How does teaching informatics contribute to the pupils' way of thinking? In this article, we search for possible answers to these questions.