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A Core Informatics Curriculum for Italian Compulsory Education

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Informatics in Schools. Fundamentals of Computer Science and Software Engineering (ISSEP 2018)

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In order to bring informatics, its ideas and ways of thinking of major educational value to all primary and secondary school students, the Italian Inter-universities Consortium for Informatics (CINI), in collaboration with the academic associations who gather together researchers in informatics (GRIN) and computer engineering (GII), has recently proposed a core informatics curriculum for all the levels of compulsory school. This paper summarizes the proposed curriculum, highlights the key underlying motivations, and outlines a possible strategy to ensure that its implementation in schools can be effective.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We adopt here the term “Informatics,” more common in continental Europe, instead of “Computer Science” or “Computing”.

  2. 2.

    “Why K-12 computer science?” http://code.org and http://computinginthecore.org.

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    http://cs4all.nyc.

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    http://www.informatics-europe.org/news/434-inf4all.html.

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    In particular, the Italian Ministry has adopted the “Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council” of 18 December 2006 on key competences for lifelong learning (2006/962/EC).

  6. 6.

    Digital competence is one of the seven broad areas listed in 2006/962/EC.

  7. 7.

    http://www.indicazioninazionali.it/ (in Italian).

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    An English translation of the official proposal [7] is available at https://www.consorzio-cini.it/gdl-informatica-scuola.

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  1. Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

    Luca Forlizzi

  2. Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna & INRIA Focus, Bologna, Italy

    Michael Lodi

  3. Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Violetta Lonati, Mattia Monga & Anna Morpurgo

  4. Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy

    Claudio Mirolo

  5. Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy

    Alberto Montresor

  6. Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

    Enrico Nardelli

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Forlizzi, L. et al. (2018). A Core Informatics Curriculum for Italian Compulsory Education. In: Pozdniakov, S., Dagienė, V. (eds) Informatics in Schools. Fundamentals of Computer Science and Software Engineering. ISSEP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11169. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02750-6_11

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