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This chapter presents active-learning-based teaching methods that computer science educators can employ in the classroom. The purpose of this chapter is first, to let the students in the Methods of Teaching Computer Science (MTCS) course experience a variety of teaching methods before becoming computer science teachers; second, to discuss, together with the students, the advantages and disadvantages of these teaching methods; and third, to demonstrate high school teaching situations in which it is appropriate to employ these teaching methods. Within this chapter, we discuss (a) pedagogical tools: games, the CS-unplugged approach, rich tasks, concept maps, classification, and metaphors; (b) different forms of class organization; and (c) mentoring software project development.
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©Hebetim (2005).
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Due to space limitations, only part of the topics addressed in the MTCS course are included in the map.
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Sometimes, different kinds of shapes and arrows are used to indicate different kinds of concepts and different types of relations among them. For the sake of simplicity, we decided to use the same shape (rectangle) for all concepts and the same kind of arrow for all types of relationships between them.
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Resources of the items included in the control structure classification worksheet (Fig. 7.3): Item #3 http://homes.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/bshapiro/research.html. Item #4 http://www.chicago-l.org/operations/lines/loop.html. Item#5 http://www.quiltdesignnw.com/Q132-SimplySunny-Easy-Kaleidoscope-Flower-quilt-pattern.htm. Item #8 http://www.junewatts.com/wwwcd.htm. Item #9 http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/questions/. Items #10 and #12 Lyrics from Mother Goose. Item #13 Article 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the General Assembly of the United Nations, formulated on December 10, 1948: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/. Item #14 http://www.redbubble.com/people/taniadonald/t-shirts/1340952-3-if-youare-close-enough-to-read-this-you-can-blow-me. Item #15 http://www.allbusinessrecords.com/projects.html.
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Hazzan, O., Lapidot, T., Ragonis, N. (2014). Teaching Methods in Computer Science Education. In: Guide to Teaching Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6630-6_7
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