Federal University of Santa
Catarina – UFSC-CTC-INE
Brazilian Computer Society
This is a report on the achievements on computers in education in Brazil
over the last 12 months. This report is divided in 2 parts:
a)
Events of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)
b)
Actions of the Brazilian Government
The Brazilian Computer Society promoted three major events:
a)
The Brazilian Symposium on Computers in Education (SBIE), to be
held in Vitoria, ES, in November 2001. This symposium is annual and was on its
XII edition. It usually gathers about 300 people, mainly researchers from
universities and teachers from local schools.
b)
The Workshop on Computers in School (WIE), held in Fortaleza, CE,
in July 2001, during the SBC's National Conference.
c)
The Workshop on Computer Science Education (WEI), held in
Fortaleza, CE, in July 2001, during the SBC's National Conference.
The events of the Brazilian Computer Society - Special Committee on
Computers in Education may be found in: http://www.inf.ufsc.br/sbc-ie/
and http://www.sbc.org.br/.
The SBC-Special Committee on Computers in Education also publishes an
interdisciplinary magazine every six months: the "Brazilian Journal on
Computers in Education". This year, numbers 8 and 9 are being published.
One of its sections presents abstracts of Brazilian dissertations and theses on
computers in education. Papers are published in Portuguese, but with abstracts
in English: http://www.inf.ufsc.br/sbc-ie/revista/.
The Ministry of Education in cooperation with the Brazilian Computer
Society promotes a Course on Quality of Informatics Curricula, including
computer science, computer engineering and information systems. In 2001 the
course approaches different proposals for pedagogical plans. It is expected
that this course could be done in 2002 in strict cooperation with the WG3.2
Working Conference on Informatics Curricula, Teaching Methods and Best Practice
- ICTEM 2002, to be held in Florianópolis, Brazil.