Didactic of Informatics
Course code
IFI7200.DT
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Informaatika didaktika
Course title in English
Didactic of Informatics
ECTS credits
4.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
Course aims to introduce social and cultural specifications of networked society, its identity and dynamics, supporting technologies, possibilities and application fields of social network analysis.
Brief description of the course
Foundations of didactics, its three main components educational objectives, content and methods. The role, aims and contents of school informatics in Estonian National Curricula, comparison with other countries. History and future trends of school informatics in Estonia and other countries. Curriculum design and informatics as a subject on the school level. Lesson planning. Instructional tasks and assessment in school informatics. Informatics as integrative and integrated subject. Informatics and information technology as cross-curricular topics in school curriculum, ICT-based multidisciplinary projects. Using presentation equipment and groupware tools, active learning in informatics lesson. Development of electronic learning materials and automated quizzes.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- describes and explains the status, purpose, content and learning outcomes of informatics in the basic curriculum of basic school and upper secondary school;
- describes and explains the development history of Estonian school informatics, its turning points and trends in comparison with other countries;
- selects a suitable teaching and assessment method for a given school informatics topic; prepares a computer science syllabus and lesson plan for a given target / age group; analyzes subject and lesson plans created by others;
- creates a suitable learning environment for teaching informatics and selects appropriate teaching aids; finds and compiles digital teaching materials in the field of informatics and ICT competence assessment tools (test, exam, test or portfolio assessment model);
- analyzes and evaluates the creation of others;
- describes and explains the objectives, content and implementation methods of the cross-curricular theme “Technology and Innovation”; plans the action plan, web environment and tasks of the interdisciplinary learning project related to this cross-cutting theme; explains the specifics of teaching computer science to different target groups;
- creates a web-based e-portfolio that reflects his / her learning experience and demonstrates the competencies learned; analyzes and evaluates other e-portfolios.
- describes and explains the status, purpose, content and learning outcomes of informatics in the basic curriculum of basic school and upper secondary school;
- describes and explains the development history of Estonian school informatics, its turning points and trends in comparison with other countries;
- selects a suitable teaching and assessment method for a given school informatics topic; prepares a computer science syllabus and lesson plan for a given target / age group; analyzes subject and lesson plans created by others;
- creates a suitable learning environment for teaching informatics and selects appropriate teaching aids; finds and compiles digital teaching materials in the field of informatics and ICT competence assessment tools (test, exam, test or portfolio assessment model);
- analyzes and evaluates the creation of others;
- describes and explains the objectives, content and implementation methods of the cross-curricular theme “Technology and Innovation”; plans the action plan, web environment and tasks of the interdisciplinary learning project related to this cross-cutting theme; explains the specifics of teaching computer science to different target groups;
- creates a web-based e-portfolio that reflects his / her learning experience and demonstrates the competencies learned; analyzes and evaluates other e-portfolios.
Teacher
Mart Laanpere
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