CODING AND COMPUTATIONAL LANGUAGEMOTHERS’ DAY BREAKFAST 2017

CODING IS NOTHING WITHOUT COMPUTATIONAL THINKING!

COMPUTATIONAL LANGUAGE

•Computational thinking is a problem-solving method

that is applied to create solutions that can be

implemented using digital technologies. It involves

integrating strategies, such as

• organising data logically,

• breaking down problems into parts,

• interpreting patterns and models and

• designing and implementing algorithms

AS A MOTHER YOU COMPUTATIONALLY THINK EVERY DAY!•How do I drop Rupert off and grab some more bread

for lunches and text Lil for her birthday and find

Wilhelm’s missing socks and decide on an alternative

to pumpkin in the recipe for tonight because

otherwise Rupert won’t eat it and did I send that

permission slip back in and I have canteen duty today

(or do I?) and somewhere in here I need to go to work!

•Computational thinking involves taking a

complex problem and breaking it down into a

series of small, more manageable problems

(decomposition). Each of these smaller

problems can then be looked at individually,

considering how similar problems have been

solved previously (pattern recognition) and

focusing only on the important details, while

ignoring irrelevant information (abstraction).

Next, simple steps or rules to solve each of

the smaller problems can be designed

(algorithms).

•organising data logically

•maths, statistics, music, art

•breaking down problems into parts,

• logical reasoning (Maths, HIS, GEO)

• interpreting patterns and models and

•Analysis (in English, Maths, Science, Music, HIS, GEO)

•designing and implementing algorithms

•Higher order thinking skills (Blooms –Creation level) in Maths, English, Science, Art

SO HOW CAN YOU HELP?

•To code or not to code?

•Computational thinking

•PS – cubetto

•Yr 1 – beebots

•Yr 2 – laptops

•Yr 3 – scratch

•Yr 4 - laptops

•Yr 5 and 6 - scopeIT