Identifying relevant CS contexts using the miracle question

摘要

The context-oriented approach for teaching CS1 wants to provide a framework to design teaching units that paint a more interesting picture of CS and show the relevance of CS in the students' everyday life. Our approach for identifying and preparing interesting contexts for children is divided into three steps: First, we start from the IT systems children and youths use every day to get hints for a suitable context. Second, we use a variation of the so-called miracle question to narrow and sharpen the focus onto that context. For the analysis, we use qualitative content analysis following Mayring. Finally, the categories we found are analyzed regarding the use for preparing material to ease the design of teaching units for CS in context. We report from our study with 130 children and the analysis of their questions along the context "mobile phone".