Background docs

Some background documentation and other relevant links.

Compiled for reference during the workshop.

General reports

l'Academy des sciences (France)
- http://www.academie-sciences.fr/activite/rapport/rads_0513.pdf (French)
- http://www.academie-sciences.fr/activite/rapport/rads_0513gb.pdf (English)
ACCE (Australia)
- http://acce.edu.au/sites/acce.edu.au/files/ACCE_Position_final.pdf
ACM
- http://pathways.acm.org
CSTA
- http://csta.acm.org/Communications/sub/DocsPresentationFiles/White_Paper07_06.pdf
Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
- http://www.sn.schule.de/~istandard/docs/bildungsstandards_2008.pdf
Haslerstiftung
- http://fit-in-it.ch/sites/default/files/small_box/study_informatics_at_school_-_worldwide.pdf
Informatics Europe/ACM Europe, joint report
- http://www.informatics-europe.org/images/documents/informatics-education-europe-report.pdf
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, report on Digital Literacy in Secondary Education (in Dutch)
- https://www.knaw.nl/nl/actueel/publicaties/digitale-geletterdheid-in-het-voortgezet-onderwijs (in Dutch)
- summary (English)
Royal Society
- https://royalsociety.org/education/policy/computing-in-schools/report/
SLO
- http://www.slo.nl/downloads/2014/informatica-in-de-bovenbouw-havo-vwo.pdf/download (in Dutch)

Basic principles in computing education

ACM Transactions on Computing Education (special K-12 issue)
- http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2642651
Abstraction
- http://www.sofismo.ch/links/kramer-abstraction.pdf, http://goo.gl/8XBc8w
Algorithmic thinking
- Burton: http://www.mii.lt/olympiads_in_informatics/pdf/infol053.pdf
- Futschek: http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_140308.pdf
- Knuth: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2322871
Computational Thinking
Discovery
- http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Discovery_learning
e-Skills
- http://goo.gl/JfX9gu
- http://eskills-week.ec.europa.eu/teach, http://eskills-week.ec.europa.eu/learn
Informatik im Kontext
- http://www.informatik-im-kontext.de/
Information thinking
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9EVTvJVtMw (Michaelson)
- http://goo.gl/IdDWde (Information everywhere)
Model-based thinking
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mn485tg1952/NowackPalleAarhus.pdf
Programming (`coding')
Review of concepts
Try out-use-modify-create
- http://mode.lanl.k12.nm.us/wiki/images/c/c8/P32-lee.pdf

Curriculum initiatives

Australia
- http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/rationale
- http://www.heia.com.au/resources/documents/Designandtechnologies2014.pdf
CS curriculum England
CS in Germany
- http://www.inf-schule.de/
- http://informatik.schule.de/
CS Principles (USA, AP curriculum)
- http://apcsprinciples.org/ (also http://www.csprinciples.org)
- http://bjc.berkeley.edu/ (Beauty and Joy of Computing - UC Berkeley)
Exploring computer science (Goode, Chapman)
- http://www.exploringcs.org/curriculum. also: http://goo.gl/HFUzvZ
- http://www.exploringcs.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Curriculum-is-not-Enough.pdf
Next Generation Science Standards
- http://www.nextgenscience.org/framework-k%E2%80%9312-science-education
- http://www.nextgenscience.org/next-generation-science-standards
SLO
- http://www.slo.nl/downloads/2014/kennisbasis-natuurwetenschappen-en-technologie-voor-de-onderbouw-vo.pdf/download (in Dutch)

Organizational activities

ACM
- http://www.sigcse.org/ (SIGSCE)
Committee on European Computing Education
- http://cece.wwu.de (Informatics Europe/ACM Europe)
CSTA (US)
- http://csta.acm.org/Curriculum/sub/CurrResources.html
- https://csta.acm.org/Curriculum/sub/CompThinking.html
EU Schoolnet
- http://www.eun.org/home, http://www.europeanschoolnetacademy.eu/
- http://www.eun.org/focus-areas/stem
Forum i22n (Belgium)
- http://www.i22n.org/
Google
- CS First: http://www.cs-first.com/
- CS4HS: http://www.cs4hs.com/
- http://www.google.com/edu/, http://www.google.com/edu/programs/google-rise-awards/
Haslerstiftung (Switzerland)
- http://www.fit-in-it.ch/
IEEE
- http://www.computer.org/portal/web/education
IFIP
- TC3: http://ifip-education.ning.com/
Informatica VO (in Dutch)
- http://www.informaticavo.nl/
- http://www.informaticavo.nl/bestand/pdf/informaticaleerlingen.doc
Informatics Europe/ACM Europe
- Committee on European Computing Education: http://cece.wwu.de
Microsoft
- Digital literacy curriculum: http://goo.gl/VRAkln

Other resources

2014
- http://yearofcode.org/, http://www.codeyear.com/
Blogs
- http://blog.acm.org/csta/ (CSTA)
- http://computinged.wordpress.com/ (Guzdial), http://blog.acthompson.net/ (Thompson)
- http://compscigail.blogspot.nl/ (Carmichael)
Code.org
- http://code.org/learn
- video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc&feature=youtu.be
Coding, programming
- http://www.appsforgood.org/, https://www.codeclub.org.uk/, http://www.codekinderen.nl/home/
- https://coderdojo.com/, http://www.tynker.com/
- Kelleher, Pausch: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~caitlin/papers/NoviceProgSurvey.pdf
Coding for space
- http://www.countdowninstitute.com/
Contests
- http://www.bebras.org/, http://www.ioinformatics.org/index.shtml
- http://orac.amt.edu.au/, http://www.olympiad.org.uk/, http://www.usaco.org/
Creative computing, experimentation
- http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/, http://www.game-maker.nl, http://www.pygame.org/wiki/about
- http://arduino.cc/, http://www.dwengo.org/nl, http://www.raspberrypi.org/
CS 101
- https://www.udacity.com/wiki/cs101, http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/
CS for fun
- http://www.cs4fn.org/
CS unplugged
- http://csunplugged.org/
Dowek (Informatique et science du numerique)
- http://goo.gl/cyR3VO
Dutch methods
- http://www.informatica-actief.nl/, http://www.enigma-online.nl/, http://www.instruct.nl/
e-Skills Association
- http://eskills-week.ec.europa.eu/home
Guide to teaching computer science
- http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-0-85729-443-2
- http://www.gbv.de/dms/tib-ub-hannover/647151782.pdf
Guzdial
- video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGc6clf_Wt4
- http://www.cs.vt.edu/DistinguishedLectures/MarkGuzdial
Peyton Jones (Teaching creative computer science, TEDx)
- http://goo.gl/EyTRUf
PISA
- http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/
- http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/pisa2015draftframeworks.htm
Robots
- http://www.aldebaran.com/en/robotics-solutions/educational-robots (NAO)
- http://www.robocup.nl/
- http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/logo/programming.html
Schulportal Informatik
- Austria: http://www.schule.at/portale/informatik-ikt.html
- RWTH Aachen: http://www.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Studium/Interessierte/Schueler/
- Switzerland: http://www.swisseduc.ch/informatik/
Scratch, Snap!
- http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/
- http://snap.berkeley.edu/
Storytelling
- http://www.rcetj.org/index.php/rcetj/article/viewArticle/31
Sustainable curricula
- https://www.onderwijsraad.nl/publicaties/2014/een-eigentijds-curriculum/item7127 (in Dutch)
Teaching computer science
- http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/index.php?id=get-involved-with-cas-teachers&lang=en
Techniekpact
- http://techniekpact.nl/ (in Dutch)

Conferences

Annual Conf on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE)
- http://www.iticse2015.mii.vu.lt/, http://www.sigcse.org/events/iticse
CSTA Annual Conference
- http://csta.acm.org/ProfessionalDevelopment/sub/CSTAConference.html
IFIP TC3 Working Conference
- http://www.ifip2015.mii.vu.lt/
Int Conf on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP)
- http://www.issep2014.org/
SIGSCE Technical Symposium
- http://sigcse2015.sigcse.org/, http://www.sigcse.org/events/symposia
Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WIPSCE)
- http://www.wipsce.org

Societies of Informatics teachers

ACCE (Australia): http://acce.edu.au/
CSTA (US): http://www.csta.acm.org/
EPI (France): http://www.epi.asso.fr/
I&I (Netherlands): http://ieni.org/
HBO-I (Netherlands): http://www.hbo-i.nl/
Leerkrachten Informatica² (Belgium): http://www.2link2.org/
NoE CAS (UK): http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/index.php?id=noe
NZACDITT (New Zealand): http://nzacditt.org.nz/
SVIA (Switzerland): http://svia-ssie-ssii.ch/de/