1st INCF Workshop on Needs for Training in Neuroinformatics

The INCF workshop on Needs for Training in Neuroinformatics was organized by the INCF National Node of the UK. The scope of the workshop was to provide as overview of the current state of neuroinformatics training and recommendations for future provision of training. The report presents a summary of the workshop discussions and recommendations to the INCF

Promoting Long-Lasting Interest in Computer Science: An Analysis of High School Teachers\u27 Perspectives

This study explores the perspectives of high school computer science (CS) teachers on students\u27 interest in the subject. Using structured interviews, we identified factors that may influence students\u27 interest in CS, such as curriculum design, teaching methods, and the use of materials and technology in the classroom. The findings reveal the importance of making CS relevant and exciting to students to increase engagement and understanding and promote acceptance of the subject in society. Additionally, the study highlights the challenges and benefits of interdisciplinary teaching of CS and the value of pre-designed teaching materials in supporting this approach. The presented study provides valuable insights for educators and policymakers looking to promote and sustain students\u27 interest in CS. Overall, the study emphasizes the crucial role of CS education (CSEd) in preparing students for success in a digital world

Promoting Long-Lasting Interest in Computer Science: An Analysis of High School Teachers\u27 Perspectives

This study explores the perspectives of high school computer science (CS) teachers on students\u27 interest in the subject. Using structured interviews, we identified factors that may influence students\u27 interest in CS, such as curriculum design, teaching methods, and the use of materials and technology in the classroom. The findings reveal the importance of making CS relevant and exciting to students to increase engagement and understanding and promote acceptance of the subject in society. Additionally, the study highlights the challenges and benefits of interdisciplinary teaching of CS and the value of pre-designed teaching materials in supporting this approach. The presented study provides valuable insights for educators and policymakers looking to promote and sustain students\u27 interest in CS. Overall, the study emphasizes the crucial role of CS education (CSEd) in preparing students for success in a digital world

Interdisciplinarity in science education in France: analysis of approaches and their application to the vibrating string case study

This thesis explores the relations among STEM-disciplines in France, with a special focus on the interaction between mathematics and physics. It presents the French high school system that recently underwent a governmental reform called BAC 2021. The work examines different approaches to interdisciplinarity in a context of science education, illustrating in particular the Julie Thompson Klein’s taxonomy. Six French researchers working with interdisciplinary were interviewed. The analysis with the Klein’s theoretical lenses of the definitions of interdisciplinarity collected in the interviews points out some practical criteria to compare and distinguish among methodological, theoretical, instrumental and critical interdisciplinarity. The thesis claims that the collaboration of people having different backgrounds is enriching because experts of various domains know different epistemologies. Some critical opinion towards the new reform BAC 2021 are expressed, especially about interdisciplinarity. Despite the introduction of a new subject of science education, it has emerged the fact that in the French education system the STEM topics seem still not to be present enough. Introducing the STEM-related problems in the teaching should be supported by an adequate university teaching research. In the end, a historical case study of the vibrating string controversy is presented. Starting with a modern treatment of the problem, the thesis problematizes the fact that often it is presented as a simple exercise, whilst, it represented a very emblematic case of interdisciplinarity. Through the historical contextualisation with the biographies of the protagonists and the analysis of the debate it highlights the analysis of the interdisciplinarity between mathematics and physics in a theme proposed in the second-grade syllabus of the school subject “science education”. The last part of the chapter develops the narrative of the debate and suggests some didactic implementations

Educational Policies: An International Overview

The process of education is as old as the human race. All through human history this process has become increasingly formalized and socialized (one milestone being, for example, the introduction of compulsory education). These steps made the responsibility of education for the future of the whole society (a Nation) more explicit. In spite of the fact that this responsibility has not been questioned for centuries, there are many very recent documents monitoring the disquieting state of the educational process which may not fulfill this responsibility. These signals are coming even from countries which devote considerable resources to education. Because of its importance, education is an inherent part of development strategies in most countries, industrially developed or developing. Appropriate institutions (ministries) are designing policies aiming to influence the behavior of individual actors in education processes in the desired direction. The efficiency of individual measures taken in achieving the selected objectives is difficult to predict because the educational process at large is a complex social phenomenon where several disciplines are involved. The resulting semantic and methodological differences make it sometimes difficult to achieve a fruitful communication through interdisciplinary barriers. Because cultural factors are also involved cross-national, cross-cultural and comparative studies might bring a specific insight into the process. This by no means proves that one could easily transfer experience from one country to another

Dagstuhl Annual Report January - December 2011

The International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science is a non-profit organization. Its objective is to promote world-class research in computer science and to host research seminars which enable new ideas to be showcased, problems to be discussed and the course to be set for future development in this field. The work being done to run this informatics center is documented in this report for the business year 2011

Informatics in the Future: Proceedings of the 11th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2015), Vienna, October 2015

Big data; Computing ethics; Women in computing; Research ethic