Social issues of Computer Science in the "Methods of Teaching Computer Science in the High School" course

  • Authors:
  • Orit Hazzan;Tami Lapidot

  • Affiliations:
  • Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel;Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper discusses social issues of Computer Science in the context of the preparation of high school Computer Science teachers. Specifically, it focuses on the importance of addressing social issues in the Methods of Teaching Computer Science in the High School course and illustrates the actual teaching, in the course, of the following three social issues of Computer Science: ethics, diversity, and history of Computer Science.