The Internet of Things in CS Education

Design Concepts, Principles and Patterns in the Curriculum of the New Computing Education Era

“…Educational robots have already offered a substantial set of tried and tested materials that can help CT theory becoming a successful practice in schools (Toh et al, 2016). An associated challenge is that, in order to act effectively in their roles, teachers need training on appropriate student-centered pedagogies for tackling aspects of computing education that relate to the development of programming and CT skills, among others (Sentence & Csizmadia, 2015;Burd et al, 2017). It has been suggested that the cultivation of programming and CT skills in tandem with transferable skills that can be applied in a variety of real-life problems probably constitutes a best practice (Resnick, 2013).…”

“…The many-connected-device world, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the cloud paradigm are examples of major advances in computing that have significant implications for the computing profession and the society, as a whole (Reed, Larus & Gannon, 2012;Burd et al, 2017). These advances in computing aligned with major educational and training advances such as the cultivation of the 21 st century skills, reinforce the importance of state-of-the-art technology such as Ubiquitous computing, Mobile computing technologies and IoT applications (UMI) in teaching practice-oriented subjects, especially in computing education and engineering (Toh et al, 2016).…”

“…Through the networking of digital objects and the use of embedded sensors, UMI technologies create new and diverse opportunities for students to learn and for teachers to inform the design of their lessons and the assessment of their students (Mershad & Wakim, 2018). Computer science educators have already started teaching students how to develop and maintain IoT-based applications and technologies and this poses big challenges and opportunities for curriculum designers and computer science educators alike (Burd et al, 2017;Goumopoulos et al, 2017). Proposing learning design approaches that could support the development of educational material for UMI technologies is an important contribution in modern computer science education which is making a passage from the exploitation of the Internet and Web technologies to leveraging of the Internet of Things technologies.…”

Innovation in Reviewing using Internet of Things

“…Rapid computers, communication technology and especially IOT is becoming increasingly growing concept, due to spreading smart phone, decreasing connection technology, growing broadband internet access and producing more devices with Wi-Fi capabilities and sensors [34],that impacts not only on how we live but also on how we work [34] and how we learn [6], [37]. IOT has some applications in classroom environment monitoring [7], [17], [27], [13], [1], [20], [18], [41], [11], [24], disabled students education [40], [37], students" healthcare and food [4], [27],students "transportation [27], [13], [4], assessment [27], [4], [11], school security [27], [1], [29], [4], [23], pedagogy [27], [13], [37], [4], [25], [28], [2], [6], [9], [11], [42], saving energy at school [13], [4], and other applications which are discussed in [15], [27], …”

“…Our assumption is that by employing internet of the things technology in order to review courses in the resting time, learning level will increase. Allowing the students to devote more time to review, engaging the students , selflearning, continuous learning process, reduction in waste of talent and time, loss of learning motivation and memory are the system"s benefits.Internet of the Things (IOT) is a paradigm that is based on the idea of pervasive presence around us of interconnected objects such as Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, sensors, actuators, cellphones, etc., which are uniquely addressed, have interaction based on standard protocols [27] in order to reach their common goal [39], bring happiness to life [37], enable innovative application [31] and share data over the networks, with or without human intervention [22]. All these sensing and actuating objects [31] are managed from the web, provide real time data that is sent to the internet to build a smart system [14] and interaction between people [2].…”