{"id":2489,"date":"2020-03-26T18:45:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T18:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/?page_id=2489"},"modified":"2023-04-07T05:28:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T05:28:15","slug":"computer-science-unplugged-bebras","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/teaching\/lcse\/letture\/computer-science-unplugged-bebras\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science Unplugged, Bebras"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Computer Science Unplugged<\/h4>\n<p>Computer Science Unplugged is a document\/site that col\u00adlec\u00adts a set of \u201cunplug\u00adged\u201d expe\u00adrien\u00adces, that is, acti\u00advi\u00adties without com\u00adpu\u00adters. The acti\u00advi\u00adties are aimed mostly at ele\u00admen\u00adta\u00adry and midd\u00adle school stu\u00adden\u00adts, but it is still inte\u00adre\u00adsting to take a look at the site for three reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They pro\u00advi\u00adde a sour\u00adce of inspi\u00adra\u00adtion for deve\u00adlo\u00adping the abi\u00adli\u00adty to trans\u00adla\u00adte con\u00adcep\u00adts under\u00adly\u00ading com\u00adpu\u00adter scien\u00adce (not just pro\u00adgram\u00adming) into one\u2019s teaching;<\/li>\n<li>Math majors can teach Math and Science, and the\u00adse acti\u00advi\u00adties are an alter\u00adna\u00adti\u00adve way to inte\u00adgra\u00adte com\u00adpu\u00adter scien\u00adce con\u00adcep\u00adts into cour\u00adse activities;<\/li>\n<li>They are increa\u00adsin\u00adgly being used to teach tea\u00adchers the con\u00adcep\u00adts behind com\u00adpu\u00adter science.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Papers and&nbsp;Links<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tim Bell,&nbsp;<span class=\"authors__name\">Jan Vahrenhold.<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-98355-4_29\"><em> <span class=\"caps\">CS<\/span> Unplugged\u2014How Is It Used, and Does It Work?<\/em><\/a> In \u201cAdventures Between Lower Bounds and Higher Altitudes\u201d, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11011. Springer (2018)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"caps\">CS<\/span> Unplugged: <a href=\"https:\/\/csunplugged.org\/en\/\">[Website-2018<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/classic.csunplugged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/csunplugged-it.2015.1.0.pdf\">Libro ita\u00adlia\u00adno-2015<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Bebras&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bebras.org\/\">Bebras<\/a> is a non\u00adpro\u00adfit com\u00adpu\u00adter scien\u00adce outreach ini\u00adtia\u00adti\u00adve. In Italy, it is orga\u00adni\u00adzed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/aladdin.di.unimi.it\/\">Aladdin research group<\/a> of the&nbsp; Department of Computer Science \u201cGiovanni degli Antoni\u201d (University of&nbsp;Milan).<\/p>\n<p>Bebras (\u201cbea\u00adver\u201d in the lan\u00adgua\u00adge of the coun\u00adtry, Lithuania, whe\u00adre the ini\u00adtia\u00adti\u00adve was born in 2004) is an inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion that aims to pro\u00admo\u00adte the scien\u00adti\u00adfic aspec\u00adts of com\u00adpu\u00adter scien\u00adce in schools. Bebras games are acces\u00adsi\u00adble to pri\u00adma\u00adry and secon\u00adda\u00adry school stu\u00adden\u00adts even without any spe\u00adci\u00adfic prior kno\u00adw\u00adled\u00adge. The pro\u00adpo\u00adsed pro\u00adblems, howe\u00adver, pre\u00adsent real com\u00adpu\u00adter scien\u00adce situa\u00adtions, requi\u00adring them to inter\u00adpret infor\u00adma\u00adtion, mani\u00adpu\u00adla\u00adte discre\u00adte struc\u00adtu\u00adres, pro\u00adcess data and rea\u00adson algorithmically.<\/p>\n<p>Bebras has dif\u00adfe\u00adrent ver\u00adsions accor\u00adding to age groups, from KiloBebras (8\u201310 years old) to PetaBebras (high school three-year olds).<\/p>\n<p>Papers and&nbsp;links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Annalisa Calcagni, Violetta Lonati, Dario Malchiodi, Mattia Monga, Anna Morpurgo. <a href=\"https:\/\/aladdin.di.unimi.it\/materiali\/pubb\/2017_issep.pdf\"><em>Promoting Computational Thinking Skills: Would You Use this Bebras Task?<\/em><\/a> <span class=\"caps\">ISSEP<\/span> 2017: 102\u2013113 (2017)<\/li>\n<li>Bebras [<a href=\"https:\/\/bebras.it\/\">Sito web<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Optional, if you&nbsp;feel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Insight into some Bebras que\u00adstions \u2014 Violetta Lonati<\/strong>. <span style=\"color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">[<\/span><a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/lonati.di.unimi.it\/didainfo_2019-20\/bebras3-quesitiLonati.mp4\">Video<\/a><span style=\"color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">]<\/span><br>The video pre\u00adsen\u00adts some Bebras que\u00adstions, discus\u00adsing in par\u00adti\u00adcu\u00adlar their com\u00adpu\u00adter scien\u00adce con\u00adtent and tea\u00adching value. The key used is that of com\u00adpu\u00adta\u00adtio\u00adnal thin\u00adking, which can ena\u00adble tea\u00adchers, even in the absen\u00adce of spe\u00adci\u00adfic trai\u00adning in com\u00adpu\u00adter scien\u00adce, to gra\u00adsp the fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal aspec\u00adts of the que\u00adstions in order to re-pro\u00adpo\u00adse them in their clas\u00adsrooms after the competition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Situated Learning with Bebras Quizzes \u2014 Martina Palazzolo<\/strong>.<span style=\"color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">[<\/span><a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/lonati.di.unimi.it\/didainfo_2019-20\/bebras5-labPalazzolo.mp4\">Video<\/a><span style=\"color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">]<\/span>&nbsp;<br>In the video, a tea\u00adcher from <span class=\"caps\">IC<\/span> Ilaria Alpi in Milan pre\u00adsen\u00adts a labo\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry based lear\u00adning path cen\u00adte\u00adred on the Bebras que\u00adstions. The path, which invol\u00adved a secon\u00adda\u00adry school class and a pri\u00adma\u00adry school class, was aimed at pro\u00admo\u00adting both com\u00adpu\u00adta\u00adtio\u00adnal thin\u00adking and the chil\u00addre\u00adn\u2019s desi\u00adgn and team\u00adwork skills).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reasoning\/discussion promp\u00adts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Analyze the acti\u00advi\u00adties pro\u00adpo\u00adsed by <span class=\"caps\">CS<\/span> Unplugged or the quiz\u00adzes pro\u00adpo\u00adsed by Bebras, choo\u00adsing a cou\u00adple that seem par\u00adti\u00adcu\u00adlar\u00adly inte\u00adre\u00adsting and mea\u00adning\u00adful to you to bring to&nbsp;class.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Describe, in your opi\u00adnion, how the\u00adse acti\u00advi\u00adties \/ quiz\u00adzes can sti\u00admu\u00adla\u00adte com\u00adpu\u00adta\u00adtio\u00adnal \/ logi\u00adcal \/ algo\u00adri\u00adth\u00admic thinking.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer Science Unplugged Computer Science Unplugged is a document\/site that col\u00adlec\u00adts a set of \u201cunplug\u00adged\u201d expe\u00adrien\u00adces, that is, acti\u00advi\u00adties without com\u00adpu\u00adters. The acti\u00advi\u00adties are aimed mostly at ele\u00admen\u00adta\u00adry and midd\u00adle school stu\u00adden\u00adts, but it is still inte\u00adre\u00adsting to take a look at the site for three rea\u00adsons: They pro\u00advi\u00adde a sour\u00adce of inspi\u00adra\u00adtion for developing&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2311,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2489","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4787,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2489\/revisions\/4787"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}