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This paper presents a duality perspective for teaching everyday software products. The concept includes didactical lenses as a means to teach students conceptual models of such digital artifacts. The duality of structure and function is proposed as a didactic category to educationally reconstruct digital artifacts from different perspectives (lenses). A comparison of teaching concepts for word processors serves to illustrate the proposed concept of duality reconstruction.
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Schulte, C. (2008). Duality Reconstruction – Teaching Digital Artifacts from a Socio-technical Perspective. In: Mittermeir, R.T., Sysło, M.M. (eds) Informatics Education - Supporting Computational Thinking. ISSEP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5090. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69924-8_10
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