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Informatics Education group holds mini conference on informatics teacher education

The Informatics Education expert group and the Slovak Society for Computer Science (SSCS) held the event ‘Strategies for Informatics Teachers Education’ on 21 June 2022 in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was organised by CEPIS and SSCS in cooperation with the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics of the Comenius University in Bratislava, where the informatics teachers study programme started 40 years ago, in 1982.  

Experts from academia, education and non-profit sectors presented both national and European-level projects on increasing and updating skills of teachers in higher education. 

Conference presentations:

Informatics in School and in Teacher Education: Ivan Kalas, Comenius University
Erasmus+ Project TeaEdu4CT: Gerald Futschek, Vienna Technical University
Coding Using Scratch: Pierfranco Ravotto, AICA
Teaching Computer Science as an integral part of STEM and humanities: Juraj Hromkovic, ETH
European Software Skills Alliance project update: Pierfranco Ravotto, AICA
Informatics in Slovak curriculum: Zuzana Kubincova, FMFI UK

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