Lecture Informatics teaching methodologies - Chapter 1: Informatics teaching methodologies

Lecture Informatics teaching methodologies - Chapter 1: Informatics teaching methodologies. The main topics covered in this chapter include: the object and the main tasks of the subject ITM; the scientific features of teaching Methodologies in Informatics; related science; approach methods;...

Informatics Teaching Methodologies (ITM)

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1. The object and the main tasks of the subject ITM

2. The scientific features of teaching Methodologies in

Informatics

3. Related science

4. Approach methods

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1 The object and the main tasks of the subject ITM

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1.1 The object of the subject ITM

In ITM, what do we study?

- In ITM, we study teaching processes of Informatics subject in the way that it

is a part of Education program at school

Education?

Informatics?

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1.1 The object of the subject ITM

What does the term “teaching” mean?

Teachers help students:

- Get knowledge, skills in a subject field

- Develop their specialized competence

- Change their own attitude: forming new worldviews, new vision,…

- Develop their personalities

- Prepare for the teaching career in the near future

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1.1 The object of the subject ITM

Who involve in the teaching (learning) process in ITM?

1.1 The object of the subject ITM

The teacher work as a facilitator, supporter, organizer…

Students are actively involving in all learning activities: reading, writing, listening,

implementing activities, reviewing, assessing, presenting…

By those ways, students will build the knowledge, skills in the subject for themselves and develop their competences in teaching the subject.

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1.1 The object of the subject ITM

What are the components of “CONTENTS”?

 The objectives: why do we teach students this subject?

 The contents: what do we teach in this subject? What do students learn in thissubject?

 The methods: what techniques do we use to teach? What methods andtechniques used for Student assessment?

Which factor play a main role? Why?

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1.1 The object of the subject ITM

Example 1:

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Objective

Informatics knowledge Thinking methods

Specialized activities

Contents

Algorithm thinking

Semantic thinking

Methods

Syntax thinking

Problem based learning

1.1 The object of the subject ITM

Example 2:

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Methods Using Internet

Objectives

Improving self-study

in Internet environment

Contents

Advanced Internet

1.1 The object of the subject ITM

What is about the teaching environment? Teaching conditions?

 Resources for teaching

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1.2 The main tasks of Informatics Teaching Methodologies

General tasks:

ITM studies relationships (with regularity) between the components of teaching

improving the efficiency of teaching this subject with the purposes proposed

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1.2 The main tasks of Informatics Teaching Methodologies

In short, ITM need to answer the following questions:

objectives)

- Which contents of Informatics need to be taught for students? (defining the

contents)

- How can students learn these contents? (How to teach?) (defining the rules,

methods, teaching facilitator… it means Informatics Teaching Methodologies).

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1.3 Responsibilities of ITM in Teacher Education Institution

Informatics

 Helping TS build skills in teaching Informatics

 Helping TS in building good attitude of Teachers of Informatics (professionalemotion, morals of Teacher of Informatics subject…)

 Helping TS develop the abilities of self-study in ITM, then later on they canteach Informatics subject successfully in schools

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2 The scientific features of Teaching

Methodologies in Informatics

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2 The scientific features of Teaching Methodologies in Informatics

Informatics Teaching Methodologies is a part of the Education Science Thus, ithas scientific features of the Education Science

Besides, ITM has its own features

These are the rules we need to find out, prove and follow, such as:

 Developing algorithm thinking for students is a condition for training skills of algorithm development.

 Paying enough attention on both syntax and semantics is a condition for qualified learning programming.

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3 The related sciences

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3 The related sciences

What kinds of sciences related to ITM? In what ways?

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3 The related sciences

Other fields

Philosophy

3 The related sciences

1.ITM relates to Philosophy:

- Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters

- Philosophical methods include questioning, critical discussion, rational argumentand systematic presentation

- Do we need to encourage students to use philosophical methods to develop the thinking skills?

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-3 The related sciences

1.ITM relates to Philosophy:

 Rule: Inconsistency is the motivation of development

 Problem based learning: The teacher gives a problem case -> Students do not enough knowledge to solve -> have the inconsistency -> learning new

knowledge -> Get more knowledge -> Development

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-3 The related sciences

2 ITM relates to Informatics itself

In ITM, we need to:

+ propose and study carefully the contents of Informatics taught in LowerSecondary School and Higher Secondary School level

+ find out suitable methods to teach each part of contents in Informatics

+ find out the relationship between objects in Informatics, such as Input andOutput, between Data Structure and Algorithms

If you want to have good methods to teach a certain part of the curriculum,

we really need to understand deeply the content of that part!

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3 The related sciences

3 ITM relates to Mathematics In what ways?

- Mathematics is the foundation of Informatics

- Thinking mathematically helps students work out algorithms for problems inInformatics

programs are effective tools in studying Mathematics

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3 The related sciences

4 ITM has close relationship with Education

- It is a part of education

- - It finds out the effective ways to teach Informatics to students at school

- - It has to follow the rules in education:

- + It promotes active learning: students actively involve in learning activities

- + It combines teaching theory and practice efficiently

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-3 The related sciences

5 ITM has close relationship with Psychology

them well That means we need to understand their mind, their thought, their

behaviors!

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3 The related sciences

5 ITM has close relationship with Psychology

them well That means we need to understand their mind, their thought, their

behaviors!

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3 The related sciences

6 ITM relate to logic

- What is logic?

- - Simple Definition of LOGIC:

- a proper or reasonable way of thinking about or understanding something

- ( Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary)

- - Full Definition of LOGIC:

- a science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and

- Logic needed for any kinds of Science, so Informatics and ITM

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-3 The related sciences

7 In addition, ITM relates to other field ofSciences, such as Probability, Statistics,and so on

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4 Approach methods

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4.1 Foundation of methodology

Materialist dialectics (phép biện chứng duy vật) is the methodological foundation

of any sciences and ITM itself

- What are the main ideas of Materialist dialectics applied in ITM?

- The basic and main ideas includes:

and impacts between them;

development;

- + Showing that when quantity changes then quality will change;

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Review question

1. Please distinguish the objects of Education, ITM and Informatics

2. Is the name “Informatics Teaching Methodology” suitable for this subject?

3. What study tasks need to be done in order to take Informatics into the school

curriculum?

4. Is theoretical study synonymous to reading books?

5. Is that only narrating all the work done summarizing experiences?

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