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The integration of informatics and information technology into schools should not only be oriented towards subject matter and methods but also towards general current demands of society on education. Interdisciplinary and intercultural knowledge and abilities form part of these demands. They can be promoted by aspects of the history of informatics such as early binary coding in China or early calculating machines emanating from roots in different cultures — Arabian, Chinese and European.
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Graf, KD. (1995). Promoting interdisciplinary and intercultural intentions through the history of informatics. In: Watson, D., Tinsley, D. (eds) Integrating Information Technology into Education. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34842-1_14
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