Class Informatics Workshop and Introduction to Computational Thinking

Both Workshops of the course (Informatics and Introduction to Computational Thinking; Informatics, Sensors and Educational Robotics) are taught in an integrated way, with the first one focusing on software and the second on hardware.   The Workshops are jointly taught by the Institute of Education and the School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technology (ECAATI), using laboratories and other ECAATI facilities and, when appropriate, laboratories and rooms of cooperating schools, namely the Digital Education Laboratories (LED).

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STEM/STEAM perspectives of science teaching and its curricular framework.   Computational thinking as a process of creating subsumers for learning programming.   Principles of Computational Thinking.   Guidelines for programming and computational thinking in education in Portugal.   Programming environments for children.   Scratch environment and language.   Design, implementation and evaluation of pedagogical activities in the field of computational thinking and introduction to programming.

The course unit assumes that innovation is opervarsive in alll activities.

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