Thinking Myself - week 7

This week I was directed to a website that explained the computational thinking processes in easy terms. This website was called 'Thinking Myself'. You can explore the website yourself by clicking here. This was a great way to introduce the specifics of what computational thinking involved. It gave simple, easy to follow mini lessons on the four key areas of computational thinking, which are:

• Decomposition
• Patterns
• Abstraction
• Algorithms

Below are the definitions given by the website:

This website could be used by any age (even adults) and if used in a classroom students could self pace along the lessons and activities. Computational thinking is explained in simple terms using examples that students can relate to. For example when teaching about Algorithms it used the example of a recipe to making choc chip cookies. What child wouldn't want to learn something that way. As a bonus it has a button you can push that claps and cheers when you want it to. I had fun with that one, I love being cheered on!!