We're back with Computational Thinking! When we first went over it during Module #1, I was super excited to learn about this because it was new and interesting. Now in Module #5, we had to watch 3 videos and work on 3 assignments. In the 3 videos, I enjoyed the Google Earth example the most because that is something I use often, and to see the behind-the-scenes with computational thinking was really cool.
I appreciated the resources for Computational Thinking and cannot wait to use them in my lesson plans. As a future reference for me, I am going to attach the links:
- Google - Exploring Computational Thinking
- Code - Unplugged Lessons
- Digital Technologies Hub - Lesson Plans
With the three Computational Thinking that we had to do, my favorite one was the third one, talking about Algorithm. It was fun to make up my own word and symbol algorithm to create a picture. The only other time that I have heard of the word 'algorithm' was with Youtube. I hear a lot of content creators mentioning commenting and liking their videos for the Youtube algorithm and I could see that by doing so, their videos would get more views and recommended to other people. While doing the first activity, we focused on abstraction and pattern matching. It was really simple and easy to understand. I wish we could go more in depth in it though.
All in all, I could see how Computational Thinking could logically order and analyze data, create solutions using a series of order steps/algorithm, and has the ability to confidently deal with complex and open-ended problems.
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