The profession of IT: who are we?
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM - Self managed systems
The Challenging Face of Informatics Education in Poland
ISSEP '08 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspectives: Informatics Education - Supporting Computational Thinking
ISSEP'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspectives international conference on From Computer Literacy to Informatics Fundamentals
Outreach to prospective informatics students
ISSEP'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Informatics in Schools: situation, Evolution and Perspectives
Infusing computational thinking into the middle- and high-school curriculum
Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
IT problem solving: an implementation of computational thinking in information technology
Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Information technology education
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In this paper, which is a continuation of our works on informatics education in Poland presented at previous ISSEP meetings [16-18], we focus on informatics for all high school students, a new subject introduced to schools in September 2012 by the education reform of 2008. In Section 2 we shortly characterize informatics education in high schools in Poland and the role algorithmic thinking plays in the curriculum. Section 3 is devoted to computational thinking, its educational and computing characteristics, and in Section 4 we present a textbook for informatics for all high school students [7]. It is described how the computational thinking approach has been implemented in students' activities managed by this text book. The project based learning is proposed to organize content and students' learning. Moreover, a flipped learning strategy is advised to students and teachers as a personalized learning during the class time and off classroom.