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Interesting Informatics at Elementary Schools
Course overview
Faculty of electronic engineering Nis, May 14th, 2009.
Course overview
Interesting Informatics at Elementary SchoolsProf. dr Teufik Tokić
M.Phil. Oliver Vojinović
Dipl. ing. Nataša Marković
Dipl. ing. Nikola Davidović
Faculty of electronic engineering Nis, May 14th, 2009.
Goals Official
To present some of interesting aspects of IT To give ideas how to make class interesting and
accessible to all students To provide basis for further personal improvement
Unofficial To enhance fundamental knowledge To give advantage over students To stimulate problem solving skills, collaboration.
Course concept Blended learning
Online lessons + assignments & forum Traditional lessons + labs + final test
Course outline (lessons) Introduction Computer hardware Operating system Computer Networks & Internet Documents & Multimedia Programming Concluding remarks
Course outline (lessons) Introduction Computer hardware Operating system Computer Networks & Internet Documents & Multimedia Programming Concluding remarks
Lesson Introduction Motivation principles applied to teaching IT
topics Learning by doing Connecting knowledge Stimulating purpose, curiosity Storytelling
“computer geeks” and “not born for using computers” students
Methods for building trust and credibility “Fishing school”.
Lession Computer hardware What is NOT computer? Measurement units in IT (bit, byte, inch, pixel,
Hz; multiplies) Computer anatomy PC components; bits of facts Performance: MHz = km/h ? “disguised” computers.
Lesson Operating system OS basic; boot process Basic OS functions: resource management,
process management, memory allocation, virtual memory
Bits of true: driver system; virtual memory in Windows, application installation; file search
Group activity CSI: File System
Lesson Networks & Internet Computer networks fundamentals Internet access methods Internet services How to get, and how to put sometning on the
Net? Threats, incl. LAN protection methods .
Lession Documents & Multimedia Teaching multimedija Multimedia in teaching
MULTI types of MEDIA How to motivate students to use programs; to
distinguish programs
Lesson Programming Problems in teaching programming to
elementary schools students Algorithms without math Programming step by step (as children
grow) - games
Lesson Programming (cont.) Finally, to kill the survivors, we give brief
introduction to C# (click-me-if-you-can button game)
Lesson Concluding remarks How to be and stay interesting Personal resource collection Assignment document example Offer for collective resource (and not only)
collection Big secret of the universe
Labs PC parts & OS
PC parts Boot process (BIOS, POST, Linux) Windows OS (drivers, virtual memory, program installation, CSI: File
system) User applications
Word template document FLV: download & convert Spreadsheets Personal movie guide
Internet services & security Blog, Instant Messaging Google Maps Antivirus
Programming Gems Scratch game C#
Learning object creation
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Introduction; Hardware OS
Networks & Internet
Docs & Multimedia Programming &
Concluding remarks Tête-à-tête
Value added “Spice” collection Learning objects & resources Increased level of expected quality of such
kind of courses Emphasized problem solving, reasoning,
exploration, constructivist paradigm .