• Share one thing you have learned in this last week. • Share a faith/gospel related question are you pondering right now. • Share something exciting that has happened in the last week.
Teaching Computational Thinking Using Coding • Steps of Computational Thinking • • • Decomposition Pattern recognition Abstraction Algorithm design Evaluation • What is Coding? • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? time_continue=1&v=c. Kh. Vupvyh. Kk
Teaching Computational Thinking is really teaching Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills
The Badge - Coding Concepts • Commands – Basic action • Loops – Repeated commands • Nested loops – Loops within loops • Events – Detect when something happens, take action • Conditionals – Statement to execute command on a condition (such as “If (condition, then (action)” • Use Code. org express course (1 -18), take screenshots of what you do
The Badge - Teaching • Unplugged activity • Resource: CS unplugged https: //csunplugged. org/en/ • Codable Robot activity • Robots in the TEC Lab • Codable Robot activity plan • As simple as the robot drawing a square or the robot doing a dance
This Next Week • Review 4. 1 in Canvas • Teaching Early Coding – Level 1 badge due next Monday • Teaching Early Coding – Level 1 badge guide • Submission form • If Secondary Education, Google badge due next Monday