Integrating the practical use of a database product into a theoretical curriculum
SIGCSE '97 Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Fundamentals of Database Systems
Fundamentals of Database Systems
20 years of computers and informatics in austria's secondary academic schools
ISSEP'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspectives international conference on From Computer Literacy to Informatics Fundamentals
Standard software as microworld?
ISSEP'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspectives international conference on From Computer Literacy to Informatics Fundamentals
Data modeling and database systems as part of general education in CSE
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education
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In informatics education working with databases is considered a matter either of basic ICT training or of informatics proper. This paper points at conceptualization as common ground to both of these seemingly different approaches. It presents a new concept of database instruction, based on the process of structuring. While current didactical concepts centre either on mastering the database program or on database design, the proposed approach is motivated by the primary aim of databases to facilitate information retrieval. It suggests development of structure awareness by starting with analyzing and querying ready-to-use databases provided by the teacher. This offers new aspects of database instruction and emphasizes the ability of databases to contribute to general education as well.