Computer Science Education: overview

This lecture presents the Computer Science Education program for secondary school, focusing on the importance of digital education reform with three main axes: digital tools usage, understanding the digital society and its social impacts, and the science behind it. The program aims to train teachers to introduce computer science as a new discipline, providing a two-year training to prepare them to teach computer science to 9th, 10th, and 11th graders. The training combines scientific knowledge in computer science with the development of pedagogical activities for students, emphasizing the use of various teaching methods. Teachers involved in the program are pioneers in building teaching resources that will be used with students, who have shown great interest and engagement in learning about the digital world.