Učni cilji pouka računalništva v osnovni šoli – slovenski in ACM K12 kurikulum

With the nine-year elementary school, Computer Science re-appeared as an elective subject. However, there was virtually no curriculum for Computer Science to be used, no textbook, no exercise book. There was only an idea to include information and communication technology in the elementary school, because of society's growing dependence on it. Not properly trained and severely underprepared teachers had to adapt competency goals to the inappropriate teaching equipment. Because Computer Science is still only an elective subject and hence students attend it at their own will, the quality and importance of the subject is still at the level of an out-of-class activity not recognizing its indispensable role in the modern society. Meanwhile, the leading international professional society ACM (Association for a Computing Machinery) started forming guidelines for teaching curriculum for Computer and Information Science from Kindergarten to Grade 12 (K12) that are already used in several countries.The guidelines could be also used as a reference to define and renew competency goals for teaching in Slovenia. There appears a fundamental question: "Is the Slovenian curriculum for Computer Science well designed?Z uvedbo devetletke, je računalništvo1 kot izbirni predmet spet ugledalo luč sveta. Kurikulum za pouk Računalništva še ni bil opredeljen, učbenikov ali delovnih zvezkov za računalništvo ni bilo. V ospredje je prišla ideja o vključevanju informacijsko komunikacijske tehnologije v osnovno šolo, zaradi vedno večje odvisnosti človeka od njene uporabe. Nezadostno poučeni in nepripravljeni učitelji so morali pogosto prirediti učne cilje pomanjkljivim učnim sredstvom in svojemu pomanjkljivemu znanju. Ker je računalništvo še vedno le izbirni predmet in se ga učenci udeležijo le po lastni izbiri, ga tako površno zastavljen šolski sistem še vedno zadržuje na stopnji krožka in ne priznava nepogrešljive vloge, ki jo ima v današnji družbi. Medtem je vodilna svetovna strokovna organizacija za področje računalništva in informatike ACM (Association for a Computing Machinery) pričela oblikovati navodila za poučevanje računalništva in informatike od vrtca do konca srednje šole, ki so jih tudi pričeli uporabljati v vrsti držav. Priporočila bi lahko uporabili tudi za opredelitev in prenovo učnih ciljev za poučevanje predmeta v Sloveniji. Postavlja se osnovno vprašanje: »Ali je slovenski kurikulum za Računalništvo sploh dobro oblikovan?