Week 5

Computational thinking

• Digital citizenship (being able to use and navigate digital technologies to enhance)

Using guess my number to 100. You can get the answer within 7 questions if you use halves to ask questions which give you an logorthium. Which gives people the procedures to use to solve problems. We aren’t getting people to be computers but to solve problems and draw on concepts fundamental to solving problems.

Computational thinking means...

Decomposition - breaking down data

Pattern recognition - observing patterns, trends, and regularities in data

Abstraction - identifying the general principles that generate these patterns (finding the things that work and help - these are the things I need to do)

Algorithm design - developing the step by step instructions for solving this and similar problems (put the things together and this makes the algorithm step).

Good computational thinkers follow these steps - good cooks are often good computational thinkers as they work through these steps.

Algorithm set of instructions - programme specific language

The best algorithm is the simplest with the fewest steps.

Becoming creators rather than consumers. Doing and expressing on the devices, past just pinching and following instructions on ipads etc.

Coding - creating an algorithm without devises. Create a dance routine using steps, loop, repeat.

Being fluent - Using technology to create.

Driver does the typing. Navigator will give feedback and suggestions. Then swap.

Compared todays tasks to the new curriculum.

Developing a growth mindset - Leadership

Children have a more plastic brain than adults. Child took 2 weeks to learn something that an adult took 8 months (backwards brain bicycle story)

Pre programming - pre wired.

Knowledge does to equal understanding.

Truth is truth

Growth mindset

• Fixed mindset - I can't do this. I'm too busy. I don't have a talent for this etc.