5. Remaining questions
• Which competencies are important?
• Are those competencies equal important?
• How can we assure that all competencies were
covered during a lecture?
• Which contents should be used for lectures?
• Motivation for the pupils & students?
• How can the needed competencies for a lecture
made transparent?
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6. Possible answer: Informatics in Context (IniK)
• Three goals:
– Orientation on relevant contexts
– Variety of teaching methods
– Principles and standards
– Or better: ...fundamental principles? and ...competencies?)
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7. Informatics in context (IniK): The phases
• The Entry Phase
– E.g. first impulse, starting a discussion
• The Working Phase
– Student working groups
• The Immersion and Linking Phase
– Presenting of the student results
• The Knowledge Assessment Phase
– Questions to control and assess the gained competencies
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8. Informatics in context (IniK): File Sharing
• The Entry Phase
– E.g.: Writing down the word „pirate copy“ or „I have heard that a
student has been questioned by the police for sharing music files
online.“ or articles on the topic.
– Students discuss their perspective and experience
– After that, they state questions
• The Working Phase
– Students discuss their questions
– Teachers:
• Advise and DON‘T GUIDE
• provide and prepare materials
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9. Informatics in context (IniK): File Sharing
• The Immersion and Linking Phase
– Students present their results in class and discuss them
together
– A lawyer could review the results
– The students discuss how to present the results to the
school / their parents and plan it
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10. Informatics in context (IniK): File Sharing
• The Knowledge Assessment Phase
– Possible questions to control and assess the gained
competencies:
• Explicate the way of data from the Net to your PC when starting a
download. (Draw sketch)
• Sort the necessary steps and technical parts
• Explicate how the law was violated.
• Explain what should have been different to assure that no law was
broken.
Another step could be made by adopting the concept to another
content:
– Compare file sharing to streaming technology used by web-TV
sites
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11. Example: Writing a text
• Three ways of writing a text:
– Old fashioned way with a pen on paper
– Using a typewriter
– Using a word processing system
• Even so, the medium has changed, the writer still needs the
skill to write texts:
– Designing the text (structure, skill to use the right words)
• In addition: Knowledge about the medium
– How is a pen used on paper?
– 10-finger-system, how to push the types
– Use of the computer, use of the specific application
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13. Todo
• Gather a set of interesting contexts
• Identify the important competencies
• Possible reviews of existing standards for
informatics
• ...and possible help with their improvement
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