Teach CS Unpluged in Brasilian High Schools

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Rafael_Hocevar

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May 26, 2010, 1:31:48 PM5/26/10
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I'm a student of computer science at the Pontifícia Universidade
Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS), Brazil.
My partners and I were very interested in the project Unpluged
Computer Science. The proposed activities are shown as a fun and
interactive way to learn computing.
We have the idea of starting a similar project in Brazilian schools
(High school), because in the Brazilian process of learning there is
almost nothing about teaching informatics. Or rather, there is no
teaching about computing.
Knowing, or at least have an idea about what it is and for what ir can
be used the computation, is very important to society, since many
problems in most areas of knowledge need computational intervention to
resolve and find solutions.
If a young leaves school without having the notion of what computing
is, perhaps in the future he will face a problem that requires
computation but he did not know that the problem is computational.
Otherwise, if he decides to follow the area, he certainly will be more
prepared to enter the course.
In my case, I entered college having no idea what are programming
languages, algorithms ... I just knew it would mess with computers,
that I like very much.
Now that I am in the last year, I realize how important is to know
computing.
Anyway, I wish to join the group because this idea is very innovative.
Teach computing to people in high school would be good for education
in Brazil. In addition, there are many government incentives in Brazil
for such projects, involving citizenship and contribute to social
development.

If someone can help us (guide, clues), we are open for suggestions,
principally people who lives here in Brazil.
Thanks.

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