Given the growing importance of programming in STEM research, many educational researchers and policymakers have argued that programming and computational thinking should be integrated in education.
Several countries have, like Norway, included programming in their national curricula. A common approach is to integrate programming as a part of an existing subject, such as mathematics. Norway stands out as one of few countries that has chosen to integrate programming in natural science and physics curricula in upper secondary level, in addition to mathematics.
Although programming is explicitly mentioned in the natural science and physics curriculum documents, they do not provide clear guidelines on how to integrate programming with science teaching.
We have interviewed 10 teachers to understand the effects of explicitly including programming in the science and physics curricula and what the process of integrating programming with science and physics looks like for the teachers.
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The bi-weekly ODD seminar series at CCSE
The Open Discussions on Didactics (ODD) is a seminar series usually 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.