In this video we’ll familiarise ourselves with the key concepts and practices of computational
thinking. We’ll reflect on how CT can be offered across curriculum and offer cross-curricular
examples. Covering decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition and algorithms - and how the concepts of computational thinking can be related back to everyday, real-life activities. We’ll learn more about tinkering, creating, persevering, debugging, collaborating..

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Read Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding and get ideas how to teach computational thinking in your classroom.

Read the article on Computational Thinking for Teacher Education and New Framework for studying and assessing the development of computational thinking
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/4/215031-computational-thinking-for-teacher-education/fulltext
and
http://web.media.mit.edu/~kbrennan/files/Brennan_Resnick_AERA2012_CT.pdf

Learn more about Computational Thinking with Google’s Teacher Course
https://computationalthinkingcourse.withgoogle.com/course?use_last_location=true

Watch the Computational Thinking and Scratch video from Harvard CS50 and see how to combine Scratch and CT with Computational Thinking with Scratch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5azaK2cBKGw

Check out Barefoot Resources and Computational Thinking for All Toolkit
https://www.barefootcomputing.org/primary-computing-resources
https://www.iste.org/explore/Solutions/Computational-thinking-for-all

Read Krauss & Prottsman: Computational Thinking and Coding for Every Student: The Teacher’s Getting- Started Guide.


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