Background docs

Some background documentation and other relevant links (under development)

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
  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing06.pdf
  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wing/publications/Wing08a.pdf
  • http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/asiafacsum2012/day1/Jeannette_Wing.pdf
  • http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/356481/1/SIGCSE2014bg_soton_eprints.pdf
• 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')
  • http://code.org/, http://coderdojo.com/, http://codeweek.eu/
  • http://girlswhocode.com/
  • http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/07/year-of-code-dan-crow-songkick
• Review of concepts
  • http://computingatschool.org.uk/data/uploads/computing-04-02-13_001.pdf
  • http://ddi.cs.uni-potsdam.de/didaktik/forschung/israel97.pdf, http://goo.gl/Yfdjd6
  • http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~jorgev/cs106/General%20Review%202009.pdf
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_computer_science

Curriculum initiatives

• Australia
  • http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/rationale
  • http://www.heia.com.au/resources/documents/Designandtechnologies2014.pdf
• CS curriculum England
  • http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/
  • http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/data/uploads/ComputingCurric.pdf
  • http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/data/uploads/CASPrimaryComputing.pdf
  • http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/data/uploads/cas_secondary.pdf
  • http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/cas/ComputingAtSchoolCACM.pdf
• 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
• Forum i22n (Belgium)
  • http://www.i22n.org/
• Google
  • CS First: http://www.cs-first.com/
  • CS4HS: http://www.cs4hs.com/
• Haslerstiftung (Switzerland)
  • http://www.fit-in-it.ch/
• IEEE
  • http://www.computer.org/portal/web/education
• 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)
• 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/
  • 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
  • http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/, http://www.game-maker.nl
  • http://arduino.cc/, http://www.dwengo.org/nl, http://www.raspberrypi.org/
• 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,
• 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/
• 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)

Some 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
• 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/
• 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/