Syllabus
1. Introduction into a concept of computational thinking.2. Informatics in the primary school curriculum in the Czech Republic and some other countries.3. Examples of teaching approaches to computational thinking development without computers (CSUnplugged).4. Examples of teaching approaches to computational thinking development using robotic kits and programmable e-toys.5. The main representative of LOGO culture community.6. Examples of teaching approaches to computational thinking development using software applications.7. Analysis of textbooks focused on computational thinking development at primary schools.8. Educational Resources focused on pupil's computational thinking development.9. The risks of using digital technologies in the development of younger school children.
Annotation
The main aim of the course „Digital technology in primary school education" is to explain an educational concept of computational thinking, to bring attention to a current requirement to develop computational thinking of primary school pupils and to introduce student teachers of the primary education into representative teaching approaches how to work and learn with robotic sets, programmable toys or software applications with and without computers (CS Unplugged). The attention is paid mainly to didactic questions how to develop and to cultivate pupil's algorithmical thinking in the context of reading literacy development and skills to decompose pa problem into sub-problems.
Ideas and works of Seymour Papert, Ivan Kalaš, Michel Resnick, Monika Tomscányiová, Alexej Semenov and other representatives of "LOGO culture" community will serve as an inspiration. The attention will be dedicated to some risks of using of digital literacy in primary school pupil's development.