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Reduction Patterns: A Practical Tool for Proving Undecidability
July 2016
ITiCSE '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
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In the mandatory undergraduate course on Theory of Computation, students get familiar with the limits of computation and learn to prove that certain languages are undecidable or even non-recognizable. For this purpose, Rice's theorem and reduction technique are used. The former is very general and highly abstract, so that students ...
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reduction, theory of computation course, undecidable languages
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Early computing education: why? what? when? who?
December 2014
ACM Inroads: Volume 5 Issue 4, December 2014
Publisher: ACM
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early education, nature of computer sciencen, middle school
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A Tale of Two Countries: Successes and Challenges in K-12 Computer Science Education in Israel and the United States
June 2014
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) - Special Issue on Computing Education in (K-12) Schools: Volume 14 Issue 2, June 2014
Publisher: ACM
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This article tells a story of K-12 computer science in two different countries. These two countries differ profoundly in culture, language, government and state structure, and in their education systems. Despite these differences, however, they share the pursuit of excellence and high standards in K-12 education. In Israel, curriculum is ...
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Computer science, computer science educators, computer science teachers
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March 2014
SIGCSE '14: Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Publisher: ACM
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There is a growing awareness of the importance of including computing education in the curriculum of secondary schools in countries like the United States of America, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and South Korea. Consequently, we have seen serious efforts to introduce computing education to the core curriculum and/or to ...
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international computer education
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What (else) should CS educators know?: revisited
Judith Gal-Ezer,
Ela Zur
November 2013
WiPSE '13: Proceedings of the 8th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education
Publisher: ACM
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While more and more countries worldwide have realized that computer science is a discipline that high-school students should be exposed to and, at the same time, awareness of the need for designated computer science teacher preparation programs has become more prominent than ever, we look back at our 1998 paper ...
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computer science, methods course, certification, computer science educators, computer science teachers
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Sharing computer science education ideas: Israeli-Russian collaboration
Zeev Fraiman,
Evgeny Kanel,
Judith Gal-Ezer,
Tami Lapidot
September 2013
ACM Inroads: Volume 4 Issue 3, September 2013
Publisher: ACM
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This article describes a unique Israeli-Russian project, in which Israeli high school computer science (CS) teachers promote curricular reform in the Russian region of Penza, based on the Israeli high school CS curriculum. The reform involves local schools, universities, the hi-tech industry and local government officials. It includes changes in ...
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computer science high school curriculum, curriculum reform, computer science education
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An Israeli-Russian collaboration of ideas
Zeev Fraiman,
Judith Gal-Ezer,
Evgeny Kanel,
Tami Lapidot
July 2013
ITiCSE '13: Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Publisher: ACM
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This work describes a joint Israeli-Russian project, where Israeli high school Computer Science (CS) teachers promote a curriculum reform based on the Israeli CS high school curriculum, in the Russian region of Penza. The reform involves local schools, universities, the Hi-Tech industry and the local government officials. It includes changes ...
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computer science high school curriculum, curriculum reform, computer science education
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Transforming computer science in schools
July 2013
ITiCSE '13: Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
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In this panel we explore efforts to improve computer science education in four countries.
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computer science education, computational thinking, k-12 curriculum
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Judith Gal-Ezer
November 2012
WiPSCE '12: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education
Publisher: ACM
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Discussing challenges involves some knowledge of future trends. Can one say anything about the future of computer science? Can one predict the future of computing generally? In the September issue of Communication of the ACM [1] in his column The Profession of IT, Peter Denning relates to this question and ...
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secondary computing education
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ITiCSE 2012: chairs' report
Tami Lapidot,
Judith Gal-Ezer
July 2012
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin: Volume 44 Issue 3, July 2012
Publisher: ACM
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The 17th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2012) took place in Haifa, Israel on June 3-5. ITiCSE 2012 was among the official Centenary events of the Alan Turing Year and all three keynotes were related to the Turing Centenary.
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A study on attitudes and emphases in computer science teacher preparation
Noa Ragonis,
Orit Hazzan,
Judith Gal-Ezer
March 2011
SIGCSE '11: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
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This paper focuses on the development and implementation of computer science (CS) teacher preparation programs, which are two of the main educational and pedagogical challenges faced by those involved in CS education. Specifically, the paper presents the second stage of a study, the first stage of which focused on the ...
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K-12 instruction, computer science education, computer science teacher preparation, methods of teaching computer science course
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Professional associations in K-12 computer science
June 2010
ITiCSE '10: Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Publisher: ACM
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This panel will examine the challenges associated with establishing and maintaining computer science subject associations and ensuring their potential for improving all aspects of teaching and learning. The members of this panel have a wealth of experience, working both nationally and internationally to support pre-college computer science education.Each provides a ...
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advocacy, professional development, teacher support, professional associations
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A survey of computer science teacher preparation programs in Israel tells us: computer science deserves a designated high school teacher preparation!
Noa Ragonis,
Orit Hazzan,
Judith Gal-Ezer
March 2010
SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Publisher: ACM
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This paper focuses on the development and implementation of computer science (CS) teacher preparation programs, which are among the educational and pedagogical challenges faced by those involved in the current development of CS. It presents a survey that reflects the accumulative knowledge gained in Israel over the past twenty years ...
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computer science education, computer science teacher preparation, methods of teaching computer science course, practicum in computer science
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Computer science teacher preparation is critical
March 2010
ACM Inroads: Volume 1 Issue 1, March 2010
Publisher: ACM
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In this paper, we report on the research and recommendations of the CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association) Teacher Certification Task Force, addressing the crisis in computer science teacher preparation and certification. This paper will address the importance of computer science as a scientific discipline, and provide a brief discussion of ...
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teacher certification, computer science education, secondary level
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How to establish a computer science teacher preparation program at your university?: the ECSTPP workshop
Orit Hazzan,
Judith Gal-Ezer,
Noa Ragonis
March 2010
ACM Inroads: Volume 1 Issue 1, March 2010
Publisher: ACM
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This paper presents a workshop on the establishment of computer science teacher preparation programs. The workshop is designed for the potential initiators of such programs---computer scientists and computer science curriculum developers-who do have computer science teaching experience, either in academia or in the high school, but lack knowledge about the ...
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computer science education, computer science teacher preparation, methods of teaching computer science course, research in computer science education, practicum
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The professor on your PC: a virtual CS1 course
Judith Gal-Ezer,
Tamar Vilner,
Ela Zur
July 2009
ITiCSE '09: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Publisher: ACM
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The Open University of Israel, a distance education institution with open admissions, offers a study system that was primarily based on written material. When we designed the new CS1 course in 2005, shifting from C++ to Java, we also switched from a course based on written material, to one based ...
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CS1, videotaped lectures vs. books
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August 2009
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin - ITiCSE '09: Volume 41 Issue 3, September 2009
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Computer science issues in high school: gender and more....
Judith Gal-Ezer,
Daphna Shahak,
Ela Zur
July 2009
ITiCSE '09: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Publisher: ACM
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Computer Science (CS) seems to be one of the few remaining disciplines almost entirely dominated by men, especially among university faculty and in the hi-tech industry. This phenomenon is prevalent throughout the western world. In Israel, we observed it in high schools where only 30% of the students who choose ...
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high school, computer science, gender, education
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August 2009
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin - ITiCSE '09: Volume 41 Issue 3, September 2009
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Distance education: different models of course development: from traditional distance education to technology-based education
Judith Gal-Ezer
June 2009
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin: Volume 41 Issue 2, June 2009
Publisher: ACM
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Preparation of high school computer science teachers: the Israeli perspective
Judith Gal-Ezer,
Orit Hazzan,
Noa Ragonis
March 2009
SIGCSE '09: Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Publisher: ACM
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This special session examines frameworks for the preparation of high school computer science (CS) teachers from the Israeli perspective. Specifically, several Israeli CS teacher preparation programs and their components are presented. The presentation includes both a general overview and a detailed description of the actual implementation of such programs. This ...
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computer science education, computer science teacher preparation, methods of teaching computer science course, computer science education in israel, practicum in computer science, tutoring in computer science
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March 2009
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin - SIGCSE '09: Volume 41 Issue 1, March 2009
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Has the paradigm shift in CS1 a harmful effect on data structures courses: a case study
Judith Gal-Ezer,
Tamar Vilner,
Ela Zur
March 2009
SIGCSE '09: Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Publisher: ACM
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The ongoing debate among Computer Science educators about the advantages and disadvantages of the shift from the procedural to the Object-Oriented paradigm usually relates to the introductory course. Indeed, we were also concerned when in our institute we decided to implement this shift in our introductory course and started to ...
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prodedural programming, cs1, data structures, oop
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March 2009
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin - SIGCSE '09: Volume 41 Issue 1, March 2009
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