A special issue of Informatics (ISSN 2227-9709).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2019
Special Issue Editor
Guest Editor
Dr. Francisco José García-Peñalvo
Computer Science Department. Research Institute for Educational Sciences. GRIAL Research Group. University of Salamanca. Faculty of Sciences, Plaza de los Caídos S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain
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Interests: STEM; computational thinking
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleageus,
Digital competence is a key competence proposed by the European Union. Having basic computer skills is a necessity in today's society, which adds to other basic knowledge, such as reading, writing or performing arithmetic operations.
The development of any key non-transversal competence requires independent subjects with a mandatory character, such as Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or Natural Sciences, for example.
Informatics constitutes a mixed discipline with elements of science and technology. Therefore, its learning requires an independent subject from others with which it has a relationship but whose contents are different, such as Mathematics or Technology. Moreover, this subject-based approach should be combined with other items from a pedagogical toolbox such as the computational thinking.
Purpose of the special issue
The purpose of this Special Issue is to help to identify good practices and/or particular concerns that may contribute the development of the comptational thinking practices and curricular approaches to teach informatics in the different levels of the pre-university studies, with a special emphasis in bringing with STEM reinforcement actions.
Prof. Dr. Francisco José García-Peñalvo
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Informatics is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
Computational thinking
Informatics education
STEM
Pre-university studies
PBL
Published Papers
This special issue is now open for submission.
The information is available here: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/informatics/special_issues/inform_edu