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Reflections on outreach programs in CS classes: learning objectives for "unplugged" activities

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SIGCSE '12: Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education

Pages 487 - 492

https://doi.org/10.1145/2157136.2157281

Published: 29 February 2012 Publication History

Abstract

To provide a unified view of any scientific field, outreach programs need to realistically portray the subject in question. Consequently, topics and methods actually taught in Computer Science courses should to be touched upon in Computer Science outreach programs or, conversely, elements from successful Computer Science outreach programs can be used to enrich established courses in Computer Science. We follow up on the latter aspect and investigate how outreach material might be used as a teaching resource in lower secondary Computer Science. In particular, we extract and classify learning objectives from the activities of the well-received Computer Science Unplugged program. Based upon this classification, we comment on where and to which extent these activities can be used to enrich teaching Computer Science in secondary education.

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Reflections on outreach programs in CS classes: learning objectives for "unplugged" activities
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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