Informatics Teachers Education Mini-Conference

A miniconference devoted to Informatics Teachers Education, Curricula, and Technology in Teaching Informatics, organised by the CEPIS Expert Group on Informatics Education, in cooperation with the Slovak Society for Computer Science, and the Department of Computer Science of Comenius University was held on May 31, 2024 in Bratislava, as one of the events organized at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Department of Computer Science. 

Agenda and Presentation Slides 

9:00 – 10:30: Informatics Teacher Education 

• Branislav Rovan – 42 years of informatics teachers education in Slovakia 

• Anna Beata Kwiatkowska – Informatics Teacers Education in Poland (online) 

• Daniela Tuparova – Informatics Teachers Education in Bulgaria 

• Irene Bell – Do teachers understand their pupils’ engagement with social media? (online) 

• Ali Yazici – Survey of curricula for Informatics teachers education 

11:00 – 12:30: Perspectives of Informatics Education at School 

• Jan Lepeltak – Lessons learned in introducing informatics in secondary schools. Successes and failures 

• Maciej Syslo – Informatics in Polish schools, current situation and challenges (online) 

• Ivan Kalaš – Informatics can start early. And rightly so. 

• Leon Frischauf – From conventional schoolbooks to completely digital lessons: How can digitalization be embedded in a classroom in a meaningful way? 

13:30 – 15:30: AI and Technology in School Education 

• Jan Lepeltak – Draft core objectives for digital literacy in the Netherlands 

• Pierfranco Ravotto – First experiences of using AI in Italian schools. 

• Tilman Michaeli – AI in K12 education (online) 

• Branislav Rovan – Is using technology beneficial only? 

• Gerald Futschek – MOOCs for informatics essentials 

• Judith Gal-Ezer – Inf4All and ACM Europe Activities in Informatics Education