Author: Bernadette Spieler

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Six new professors [German]

In a small, festive setting, Rector Heinz Rhyn presented the six new professors of the PH Zurich with their certificates from the University of Applied Sciences Council. Congratulations to Anja Sieber, Bernadette Spieler, Barbara Getto, Tobias Röhl, Michael Geiss and Patrick Bettinger!

Link: https://phzh.ch/de/ueber-uns/Medien/News/2021/09/sechs-neue-professorinnen/

Michael Geiss, Patrick Bettinger, Barbara Getto, Tobias Röhl, Heinz Rhyn, Bernadette Spieler, Anja Sieber
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DIZH Making@School starting in October 2021

See press links:

PH Zurich: https://phzh.ch/de/ueber-uns/Medien/News/2021/06/dizh-innovationsprojekte/ 

DIZH: https://dizh.ch/innovationsprogramm/projekte/2021-1-makingschool/ 

The DIZH-projects aims to promote cooperation between Zurich’s universities in the field of digitisation and to enable and drive innovative developments in the areas of teaching, education and digitisation, thereby strengthening Zurich as a location for research and business.

One of the 10 innovation projects is making@school, which aims to bring maker education to teacher training and education. In cooperation with University of Zurich/CreativeLab Zürich and the school office of the city of Zurich as a practical partner we will create different maker modules (basics, CS, bio-tinkering,…) as Open Educational Resources (OER).

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Creative, Engaging, and Playful Making-Activities with Smartphones and Embroidery Machines

ACM Reference Format: Spieler, B. and Krnjic, V. (2021) Creative, Engaging, and Playful Making-Activities with Smartphones and Embroidery Machines. In FabLearn Europe / MakeEd 2021 – An International Conference on Computing, Design and Making in Education (FabLearn Europe / MakeEd 2021), June 2–3, 2021, St. Gallen, Switzerland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3466725.3466745

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[in German] Gender & Diversitäts-Aspekte in der Informatik: Beispiele aus der Hochschullehre

Zitationshinweis: Spieler, B.; und Both, G. (2021): Gender & Diversitäts-Aspekte in der Informatik: Beispiele aus der Hochschullehre, In: F. Apelt, J. Grabow, L.Suhrcke (Hrsg.)  Buzzword Digitalisierung: Relevanz von Geschlecht und Vielfalt in digitalen Gesellschaften, Verlag Barbara Budrich, S. 69 – 90, ISBN: 978-3-8474-2513-7.

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New established Centre of Education and Digital Transformation (German: Zentrum Bildung und Digitaler Wandel)

PH Zurich establishes the center for research on digital transformation in education with six new professorial positions. PH Zurich is strengthening research and teaching on digital transformation in education. Six new professors will conduct research on the focus areas of Education and Digital Society, Digital Learning and Teaching, and Computing Skills in Education starting in 2021.


Link: https://phzh.ch/de/ueber-uns/Medien/News/2020/11/neues-zentrum-bildung-und-digitaler-wandel/

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The Learning Value of Game Design Activities: Association between Computational Thinking and Cognitive Skills


ACM Reference Format: Bernadette Spieler, Ferenc Kemény, Karin Landerl, Bernd Binder,
and Wolfgang Slany. 2020. The Learning Value of Game Design
Activities: Association between Computational Thinking and Cognitive
Skills. In Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing
Education (WiPSCE ’20), October 28–30, 2020, Virtual Event, Germany.
ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/
3421590.3421607

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