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In an attempt to answer the need of a more natural integration of informatics with other school disciplines this paper presents a set of scenarios for putting informatics tools in the context of mathematics, art, and literature. Having introduced scenarios of this kind into informatics courses for in-service and pre-service teachers, the author shares her impressions from this experience. These impressions are drawn from her personal observations and the feedback from her students at Sofia University and the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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Sendova, E. (2006). Handling the Diversity of Learners’ Interests by Putting Informatics Content in Various Contexts. In: Mittermeir, R.T. (eds) Informatics Education – The Bridge between Using and Understanding Computers. ISSEP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4226. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11915355_7
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