Our results show that most teachers in general science and physics have started using programming, although their perceived programming proficiency and confidence in using programming in their teaching varies greatly. Physics teachers regard programming as a useful tool that enables the students to learn more physics than what was possible without programming. Teachers of other science subjects struggle to see how and why programming should be integrated with their subject.
Based on these results, we argue that teachers need continued support from teacher educators and researchers from the science disciplines to advance the disciplinary integration of programming. We suggest that the overlap between scientific practices and computational thinking practices should play a central role in these efforts.
Bio
Henning Vinjusveen Myhrehagen is a PhD student at KURT, UiO.
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The bi-weekly ODD seminar series at CCSE
The Open Discussions on Didactics (ODD) is a seminar series on Mondays at 13:00-14:00 every other week (odd week numbers) at CCSE.
The seminar will be maximum one hour, often closer to half an hour. It is an informal arena to present and discuss learning theory, educational research and teaching experiences within computational science. To cater to the highly heterogeneous backgrounds and interests of students, teachers and researchers in our environment, we aim for seminars that introduce listeners to new ideas within a broad spectrum of aspects, and that invites reflection and discussion.
Presentations need not be mature and polished - to the contrary we hope that as many as possible wants to share undigested observations and reflections in short presentations of varied form and topics. We hope to have enough contributions to frequently have the meetings as lightning talk sessions, where three different speakers will each give a 5-10-minute presentation followed by discussion.