Informatics in Schools: Focus on Learning Programming: 10th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2017, Helsinki, Finland, November 13-15, 2017, Proceedings

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2017, held in Helsinki, Finland, in November 2017. The 18 full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. ISSEP presents this year a broad range of themes ranging from making informatics accessible to visually impaired students and computational thinking to context- and country specific challenges as well as teacher development and training. Front Matter ....Pages I-XI Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The Computer Science Way of Thinking in Human History and Consequences for the Design of Computer Science Curricula (Juraj Hromkovič, Regula Lacher)....Pages 3-11 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Adolescent and Adult Student Attitudes Towards Progress Visualizations (Onni Aarne, Petrus Peltola, Antti Leinonen, Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas)....Pages 15-26 3D Printing as Medium for Motivation and Creativity in Computer Science Lessons (Petra Kastl, Oliver Krisch, Ralf Romeike)....Pages 27-36 Teaching Materials in Informatics for Lower Secondary School Blind Students (Ľudmila Jašková, Mária Stankovičová)....Pages 37-48 Teachers’ Expectations and Experience in Physical Computing (Mareen Przybylla, Finn Henning, Carla Schreiber, Ralf Romeike)....Pages 49-61 Front Matter ....Pages 63-63 Investigating Informatics Teachers’ Initial Pedagogical Content Knowledge on Modeling and Simulation (Nataša Grgurina, Erik Barendsen, Cor Suhre, Klaas van Veen, Bert Zwaneveld)....Pages 65-76 A Notation for Sets, Sequences and Series (Susanna H. du Plessis, Vreda Pieterse)....Pages 77-88 Front Matter ....Pages 89-89 Bebras Task Analysis in Category Little Beavers in Slovakia (Lucia Budinská, Karolína Mayerová, Michaela Veselovská)....Pages 91-101 Promoting Computational Thinking Skills: Would You Use this Bebras Task? (Annalisa Calcagni, Violetta Lonati, Dario Malchiodi, Mattia Monga, Anna Morpurgo)....Pages 102-113 Front Matter ....Pages 115-115 Introducing Programming and Digital Competence in Swedish K-9 Education (Fredrik Heintz, Linda Mannila, Lars-Åke Nordén, Peter Parnes, Björn Regnell)....Pages 117-128 Preparedness of Japan’s Elementary School Teachers for the Introduction of Computer Programming Education (Yutaro Ohashi)....Pages 129-140 Baltic and Nordic K-12 Teacher Perspectives on Computational Thinking and Computing (Arnold Pears, Valentina Dagiene, Egle Jasute)....Pages 141-152 Front Matter ....Pages 153-153 Identifying Students’ Misconceptions on Basic Algorithmic Concepts Through Flowchart Analysis (Ebrahim Rahimi, Erik Barendsen, Ineke Henze)....Pages 155-168 A Preliminary Investigation on Computational Abilities in Secondary School (Ugo Solitro, Margherita Pasini, Debora De Gradi, Margherita Brondino)....Pages 169-179 Solving Everyday Challenges in a Computational Way of Thinking (Bernhard Standl)....Pages 180-191 Front Matter ....Pages 193-193 Teaching Basic Elements of OOP in School Informatics During Constructing Virtual Micro-worlds (Evgeny A. Eremin)....Pages 195-206 Real-Time Data Analyses in Secondary Schools Using a Block-Based Programming Language (Andreas Grillenberger, Ralf Romeike)....Pages 207-218 XLogoOnline: A Single-Page, Browser-Based Programming Environment for Schools Aiming at Reducing Cognitive Load on Pupils (Juraj Hromkovič, Giovanni Serafini, Jacqueline Staub)....Pages 219-231 Introduction to Bebras Challenge Management: Overview and Analyses of Developed Systems (Valentina Dagiene, Gabriele Stupuriene, Lina Vinikiene, Rimantas Zakauskas)....Pages 232-243 Back Matter ....Pages 245-245