Selected Spotlights on Informatics Education in Austria

1. Exemplary Fields of Activity/Research
Competence Models
Interventions in Primary Education
Patchwork Lower Secondary Schools
New Curriculum for the 9th Grade
New „Matura“
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Selected Spotlights on
Informatics Education in Austrian Schools
Peter Micheuz Alpen-Adria Gymnasium Velikovec
Barbara Sabitzer Alpen-Adria Universität Celovec

2. ~50 km

3. CS Unplugged
and Beaver are
nice
By the way, the QR-Code
means Peter Micheuz ;-)
© Kronenzeitung
Cryptography…
Austrian classrooms without any boundaries … ;-)

4. Informatics in a stratified Austrian school system
Elective 10-12 grades
diverse, autonomous
interventions, some outreach programs , very occasional
DISTORTIONS,NOSOLIDSTRUCTURE
top down, but without commitment
7-10years10-14years15-18/19years
Primary Education
Lower Secondary Education
Upper Secondary Education
Vocational Schools Gymnasium
Obligatory (9th grade)

5. Competence Models
Lower Secondary Level a(10-14)
Primary Level (7-10)
Upper Secondary Level
(15-18)

6. Primary Education
http://aufgabensammlung4.digikomp.at
Formal Education

7. Primary Education
Non-FormalEducation

8. Lower Secondary Education (10-14 years)
Big Survey 2007 (Gymnasium)
~ 1/3 of pupils without Informatics lessons
 obligatory
 sequenced, timed and age-appropriate
 two hours a week – 4 years from grade 5 - 8
 transdisciplinary
 guaranteed integrating other disciplines
Denotation
 Media and Informatics? Digital Technologies?
 Computing?
Dreaming of a new Discipline/Subject
4 x 2 hours

9. How to make space for this new subject

10. Lower Secondary Education (10-14 years)
Currently: No curriculum, but a
Reference Model and an Implementation Concept

11. Anachronism in grade 9 (15 years)
Obligatory subject Informatics with curriculum
Online Survey 2007 – 1500 Pupils
Class registers 2014 - 15 Teachers

12. Grade 9 (15 years, obligatory subject Informatics)

13. Informatics as the Foundation of Digital Education
TEL Technology Enhanced Learning
Digital Citizenship
Designing Digital Future
Digital Education
Using IT
Mastering IT

14. School leaving exam (Matura) in Informatics
based on the elective subject
Informatics in grades 10-12
Curriculum Contents …
Basic principles of information processing, concepts of operating systems, construction and operation of
networks, databases, learning and work organization, concepts of programming, artificial intelligence,
expansion of theoretical and technical foundations of computer science, basic algorithms and data
structures, computer science, society and the world of work, legal issues.

15. School A
01 History of Computer Science
02 Spreadsheet
03 Databases
04 Internet and Web 2.0
05 Operating Systems
06 Data security and privacy
07 Software development and binarysystem
08 Web Publishing/Markup Languages
09 Programming Languages and Concepts
10 Digital Imaging
11 Hardware Basics
12 Network Technology
School B
01 Data Structuring and Modeling
02 Algorithms
03 Programming
04 Office Programs
05 Mathematics in Informatics
06 Computer Architecture
07 Fractals in Computer Science
08 Networks
09 Operating Systems
10 Web design
11 Artificial Intelligence
12 Data security and privacy
Schools C,D,E, ……… XYZ …..
FIXED NUMBER OF TOPICS DRAWING OF TOPICS
ONE PART OF AN EXEMPLARY „K.O.“ - TASKReproducation-Transfer
Reflection/Problem Solving
Evaluation/Research in Progress …
SPECIFIED CONSTRUCTION OF TASKS
http://www.ahs-informatik.com/informatik-matura-neu

16. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING AND YOUR ACTIVE REFLECTING
[hoping that Austria is henceforth not the unknown
entity any longer as it was before …]
“A high quality
computing education
equips pupils to use
computational thinking
and creativity to
understand and change
the world”
Comments, Complaints?

17. Everything is a matter of perspective…