Informatics and the Digital Society

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Key Issues in IFIP-SIG9.2.2 Approaches to Ethics of Computing

   • Jacques Berleur

   Pages 1-16

3. Informatics — The Science of Minimal Systems with Maximal Complexity

   • Andreas Schwill

   Pages 17-28

4. ICT in Education: Aspirations and Tensions

   • David Wood

   Pages 29-36

5. e-Learning Technology: Convergence with the Mainstream

   • Colin Harrison

   Pages 37-50

6. Knowledge Management in Education

   • Jane Andersen

   Pages 51-58

7. Learning and Teaching in Socio-technical Environments

   • Thomas Herrmann

   Pages 59-71

8. Working Group Reports

   • Tom J. van Weert, Robert K. Munro

   Pages 73-84

9. Intelligent agents in an e-literate society: some ethical considerations

   • Carolyn Dowling

   Pages 85-92

10. Critical thinking and an ethical approach to studying History — the case for ICT

    • Alnazz Kassam

    Pages 93-100

11. A look at the impact of ICT on the informational power relationship between corporations and consumers

    • Christopher Lueg

    Pages 101-108

12. Exploration of Object-Oriented Models in Informatics Education

    • Torsten Brinda, Sigrid E. Schubert

    Pages 109-118

13. Learning Software Engineering with EASE

    • Dirk Draheim

    Pages 119-128

14. Object models of IT-systems supporting cognitive structures in novice courses of Informatics

    • Peter Hubwieser

    Pages 129-140

15. Let’s teach informatics — empowering pupils, students and teachers

    • Ludger Humbert

    Pages 141-147

16. Key Decisions in Adopting Algorithm Animation for Teaching

    • Guido Rößling

    Pages 149-156

17. Design Pattern — a topic of the new mandatory subject informatics

    • Markus Schneider

    Pages 157-169

18. Learning to solve ICT/informatics-based problems

    • Mary Webb

    Pages 171-178

19. Development of multimedia animations — a contribution of informatics teaching to media studies

    • Michael Weigend

    Pages 179-188

20. ICT: an aid to inclusion? Reflections on the potential of ICT for the changing role of the special school

    • Chris Abbott, John Galloway

    Pages 189-196

SECIII-Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues of Informatics and ICT Welcome to the post-conference book of SECIII, the IFIP Open Conference on Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues of Informatics and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) which took place from July 22-26, 2002 at the University of Dortmund, Germany, in co-operation with the German computer society (Gesellschaft flir Informatik). Unlike most international conferences, those organised within the IFIP education community are active events. This wasn't a dry academic conference - teachers, lecturers and curriculum experts, policy makers, researchers and manufacturers mingled and worked together to explore, reflect and discuss social, ethical and cognitive issues. The added value lies in what they, the participants, took away in new ideas for future research and practice, and in the new networks that were formed, both virtual and real. In addition to Keynote Addresses and Paper Presentations from international authors, there were Provocative Paper sessions, Case Studies, Focussed Debates and Creative Exchange sessions as well as professional Working Groups who debated particular themes. The Focussed Debate sessions helped to stimulate the sense of engagement among conference participants. A Market Place with follow-up Working Groups was a positive highlight and galvanised participants to produce interesting reports. These were presented to the conference on its last day. Cross-fertilisation between the papers generated some surprising and useful cross-referencing and a plethora of social, ethical and cognitive issues emerged in the discussions that followed the paper presentations.

• Internet
• NOVICE
• Web
• algorithms
• collaborative learning
• computer science
• computer-supported collaborative learning
• e-learning
• istance education
• knowledge management
• learning
• multimedia
• learning and instruction

• Hogeschool van Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Tom J. Weert

• University of Strathclyde, Scotland

  Robert K. Munro

Policies and ethics