An introduction to our Chair
Welcome to the Chair of Didactics of Computer Science!
Our main activities comprise providing specialist education to students training to become teachers of computer science, conducting research in the field of computer science didactics and digitalization in the context of (teacher) education – especially in schools and extracurricular acquisition of computer science skills – as well as online services and how to design these. The Chair of Didactics of Computer Science is active in the German Computer Science Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik).
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An overview of our teaching and projects
The Chair of Didactics of Computer Science offers courses for:
- Full-time students training to teach computer science in secondary schools (Oberschule and Gymnasium) and vocational schools
- Graduates of other subjects training to become teachers of computer science
- Students training to become teachers of other subjects
- Students of Media Computer Science
The Chair of Didactics of Computer Science is working on the following projects:
- TUD-Sylber 2 in the subproject “Digitalization as an overarching topic in teacher training”
- Online preparatory courses
- FlippClass-Lehrerbildung
- PraxisdigitaliS
- Schoollab Eduinf
- Pupil Computing Center
The Chair of Didactics of Computer Science is involved with the German Computer Science Society’s working group for educational technologies in schools, the aim of which is to promote a sound education in computer science education for school pupils and to establish computer science as a universally compulsory subject.