Teaching Software Engineering in schools on the right time to introduce Software Engineering concepts

Bollin, Andreas; Sabitzer, Barbara

doi:10.1109/educon.2015.7096019

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“…In 2014, past experiences motivated us to test the Software Engineering bridge the first time at a Vocational High School of Commerce and Tourism at two different grades (6 and 11) in the framework of an IMST project (Innovations make schools top) [13]. The results were more than promising [14] and it turned out that two other smaller projects at our institute, "COOL Informatics" and "Informatics -A Childs Play", have laid the foundations.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…In 2014, we introduced Software Engineering the first time at a (non-informatics) Vocational High-School (8 students of 11th grade as "software engineers") and at a lower secondary school (25 pupils of 6th grade as "customers") in Carinthia/Austria [14]. During this cooperation we learned a lot about the perception of Software Engineering among the teachers and the pupils.…”

Section: Perception Of Software Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Software Engineering in Primary and Secondary Schools - Informatics Education is more than Programming

Bollin

Pasterk

Antonitsch

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE 29th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET)

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Software Engineering is definitely an important subject matter and it is taught all over the world: at Universities, at Colleges, and recently also at High Schools. There are international Software Engineering curricula, standards, and certificates, but there is no manifestation of Software Engineering (and related practices) in the course syllabi at primary and secondary schools. There are good reasons for it, but based on the authors' experiences gained in combining Software Engineering topics with school projects and based on discussions with teachers and curriculum designers, this paper shows that informatics education can be much more than just programming. Even more, the paper shows that it makes sense to interweave Software Engineering topics with school projects and to motivate for the most important practices related to that field.

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Software Engineering in Primary and Secondary Schools - Informatics Education is more than Programming

Bollin

Pasterk

Antonitsch

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE 29th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET)

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“…Observing this predominance of IUs found for high school, the question that remains is why there are almost no IUs in elementary school. Yet, several authors report that the insertion of SE education can be beneficial even in elementary school, obviously in a limited way taking into account students' previous knowledge and curricular restrictions (Bollin and Sabitzer, 2015).…”

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“…Learning how to program can not be separated from SE. To create software, students need to learn at least the basic steps of the software process (Bollin and Sabitzer, 2015). Even in a regular programming course, it is important to address the basics of software engineering, being helpful to prevent and correct mistakes and, thus, increasing the joy of programming.…”

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“…Typically, these competencies are taught in higher education in undergraduate or graduate computing courses (Shackelford et al, 2005). So, considering the trend to introducing computing education already in K-12 in order to popularize computing, it also becomes important to introduce the learning of SE competencies at this educational stage (Bollin and Sabitzer, 2015). Yet, as it is of course not feasabile to cover all SE topics on the same level of detail as in higher education due to curriculum objectives and constraints (Bollin and Sabitzer, 2015), the question that arises is whether and how SE is taught today in K-12.…”

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Teaching Software Engineering in K-12 Education: A Systematic Mapping Study

Pinheiro¹,

Wangenheim²,

Filho³

2018

Informatics in Education

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Diverse initiatives have emerged to popularize the teaching of computing in K-12 mainly through programming. This, however, may not cover other important core computing competencies, such as Software Engineering (SE). Thus, in order to obtain an overview of the state of the art and practice of teaching SE competences in K-12, we carried out a systematic mapping study. We identified 17 instructional units mostly adopting the waterfall model or agile methodologies focusing on the main phases of the software process. However, there seems to be a lack of details hindering large-scope adoption of these instructional units. Many articles also do not report how the units have been developed and/or evaluated. However, results demonstrating both the viability and the positive contribution of initiating SE education already in K-12, indicate a need for further research in order to improve computing education in schools contributing to the popularization of SE competencies.

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Computational Thinking on the Way to a Cultural Technique

Bollin

Micheuz

2019

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Based on a thorough literature review and on personal expertise in different areas of computer science (education) fields, we reflect and debate on computational thinking from different perspectives. One is that of an Austrian teacher who is confronted with a curriculum for a new subject called 'Basic Digital Education', with computational thinking as an explicit part of it. The other view is that from a reflective software engineer with a holistic perspective on computational thinking and concrete ideas about its limitations. The debate concludes with an agreement on computational thinking as a cultural technique and a mutual approach to a refined working definition.

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Teaching Software Engineering in schools on the right time to introduce Software Engineering concepts

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Software Engineering in Primary and Secondary Schools - Informatics Education is more than Programming

Software Engineering in Primary and Secondary Schools - Informatics Education is more than Programming

Teaching Software Engineering in K-12 Education: A Systematic Mapping Study

Computational Thinking on the Way to a Cultural Technique

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