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Selected Spotlights on Informatics Education in Austrian Schools

Peter Micheuz Alpen-Adria Gymnasium VelikovecBarbara Sabitzer Alpen-Adria Universität Celovec

~50 km

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Austrian classrooms without any boundaries … ;-)

Informatics in a stratified Austrian school system

well structured and competence-

oriented, detailled curriculum

application basedElective 10-12 grades

diverse, autonomous

interventions, some outreach programs , very occasional

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Primary Education

Lower Secondary Education

Upper Secondary EducationVocational Schools Gymnasium

Obligatory (9th grade)

Competence ModelsLower Secondary Level a(10-14) Primary Level (7-10)

Upper Secondary Level (15-18)

Primary Educationhttp://aufgabensammlung4.digikomp.at

Formal Education

Primary Education

Non-Formal Education

Lower Secondary Education (10-14 years)

Big Survey 2007 (Gymnasium)

Patchwork

~ 1/3 of pupils without Informatics lessons

obligatory sequenced, timed and age-appropriate two hours a week – 4 years from grade 5 - 8 transdisciplinary guaranteed integrating other disciplines

Denotation Media and Informatics? Digital Technologies? Computing?

Dreaming of a new Discipline/Subject

4 x 2 hours

How to make space for this new subject

Lower Secondary Education (10-14 years) Currently: No curriculum, but a Reference Model and an Implementation Concept

http://www.digikomp.at

Anachronism in grade 9 (15 years)

Obligatory subject Informatics with curriculum

Online Survey 2007 – 1500 Pupils

Class registers 2014 - 15 Teachers

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Informatics as the Foundation of Digital Education

Media Education

Digital Literacy

Computer Science = Informatics?

TEL Technology Enhanced Learning

Digital Citizenship

Designing Digital Future

Digital Education

Using IT

Mastering IT

School leaving exam (Matura) in Informaticsbased on the elective subject Informatics in grades 10-12

Curriculum Contents …Basic principles of information processing, concepts of operating systems, construction and operation of networks, databases, learning and work organization, concepts of programming, artificial intelligence, expansion of theoretical and technical foundations of computer science, basic algorithms and data structures, computer science, society and the world of work, legal issues.

School A

01 History of Computer Science 02 Spreadsheet 03 Databases 04 Internet and Web 2.0 05 Operating Systems 06 Data security and privacy 07 Software development and binarysystem 08 Web Publishing/Markup Languages 09 Programming Languages and Concepts 10 Digital Imaging 11 Hardware Basics 12 Network Technology

School B

01 Data Structuring and Modeling 02 Algorithms 03 Programming 04 Office Programs 05 Mathematics in Informatics 06 Computer Architecture 07 Fractals in Computer Science 08 Networks 09 Operating Systems 10 Web design 11 Artificial Intelligence 12 Data security and privacy

Schools C,D,E, ……… XYZ …..

FIXED NUMBER OF TOPICS DRAWING OF TOPICS

ONE PART OF AN EXEMPLARY „K.O.“ - TASKReproducation-TransferReflection/Problem Solving

Evaluation/Research in Progress …

SPECIFIED CONSTRUCTION OF TASKS

http://www.ahs-informatik.com/informatik-matura-neu

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING AND YOUR ACTIVE REFLECTING[hoping that Austria is henceforth not the unknown

entity any longer as it was before …]

“A high quality computing education equips pupils to use

computational thinking and creativity to

understand and change the world”

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