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Nowadays there has been considerable activity surrounding Computer Science (CS) education on all levels especially in junior- high school. In this paper we present the CS and Robotics curriculum for junior-high schools in Israel which has been implemented since 2011. In addition we will focus on the Cyber and Internet module which recently introduced Python as its programming language. We then display the results of a survey aimed to evaluate the teachers’ attitudes towards the new Cyber and Internet module with Python. We sum up with a discussion regarding the new module.
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Zohar, D., Benaya, T., Zur, E. (2020). Cyber and Internet Module Using Python in Junior-High School. In: Auer, M., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) The Challenges of the Digital Transformation in Education. ICL 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 916. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11932-4_70
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