DFI - Computational Thinking

Computational Thinking

Empowering students to be active creators and participants in a digital world to create and also problem-solve underpins the work for DFI today.
As always the underlying authentic purpose is essential in order to ensure the design is relevant so students can make appropriate choices.
The new technology curriculum includes computational thinking which is the thought processes involved in solving problems.
Computational thinking involves:

• smaller manageable parts
• describing the problem
• identifying important details
• break into smaller logical steps
• use the steps to create a process (algorithm)
• evaluate

These are very transferable skills and can be used in many curriculum areas.

Taking time to create and use the options was helpful to use coding. I value the sandpit time to use scratch, Khan Academy, Hour of Code, Scratch - 10 block Challenge, Lightbot, Kodable, Comput it to explore and upskill in coding. Thanks team.