The Teaching-Learning-Lab - Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking for Everyone

Heike Demarle-Meusel, Barbara Sabitzer, Julia Sylle

2017

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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Demarle-Meusel H., Sabitzer B. and Sylle J. (2017). The Teaching-Learning-Lab - Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking for Everyone . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-240-0, pages 166-170. DOI: 10.5220/0006367001660170


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@conference{csedu17,
author={Heike Demarle-Meusel and Barbara Sabitzer and Julia Sylle},
title={The Teaching-Learning-Lab - Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking for Everyone},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2017},
pages={166-170},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006367001660170},
isbn={978-989-758-240-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - The Teaching-Learning-Lab - Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking for Everyone
SN - 978-989-758-240-0
AU - Demarle-Meusel H.
AU - Sabitzer B.
AU - Sylle J.
PY - 2017
SP - 166
EP - 170
DO - 10.5220/0006367001660170