Authors:
Heike Demarle-Meusel
;
Barbara Sabitzer
and
Julia Sylle
Affiliation:
Alpen-Adria-University, Austria
Keyword(s):
Teaching, Learning, Computational Thinking, Digital Literacy.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer-Supported Education
;
Educating the Educators
;
Higher Order Thinking Skills
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
Abstract:
As advancement of the already successful Informatics Lab in 2016 a Teaching-Learning-Lab (TLL) was implemented
with the main aim of supporting all teacher education departments of our university to teach and
practice digital literacy and computational thinking as “fundamental skill for everyone” (Wing, 2006) in different
ways. Our support is based on three pillars: equipment, know-how and research. Scientists, (future)
teachers and students can use the rooms (creative, experimental and observation lab), the technical equipment
and instructional technology for planning, designing, holding and/or observing and analyzing teaching
units. We offer workshops for digital literacy and computational thinking in and for different subjects. Our
main research focuses on the connection of computational thinking to other disciplines and its impact on
problem solving and text comprehension. Furthermore, the Teaching-Learning-Lab offers research
possibilities for scientists and students in
different areas concerning teaching and learning. We enhance
cooperation between schools and university and give support in finding research questions for master or
PhD-theses in didactics, conducting teaching experiments. The paper describes challenges and opportunities
of the Teaching-Learning-Lab in fostering the digital literacy competences and computational thinking of
the target groups.
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