how do we teach kids to code?

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Eunice Sari

Josh (Adi Tedjasaputra)[email protected]; [email protected]

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LINKEDIN: Eunice Sari

Lecturer and Researcher (E-Learning), ICT in Education and User Experience (UX) Design Expert


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LINKEDIN: Josh (Adi Tedjasaputra)

ICT and Language Teacher, User Experience (UX) Design Expert, Computer and Electronics Engineer


Josh has a passion for the design, development, and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for a better life. He has more than 15 years of experience helping companies, educational and non-profit organisations in Europe and Asia Pacific to achieve their business goals and make the best investment in ICT. He is the Co-founder of the first UX business in Indonesia. With his engineering and computer science background, he has introduced forward-thinking and innovative projects that improve the bottom line of businesses in different vertical industries through Human-centred design, computing and engineering. His current interests include the Internet of Things, Human-centred Computing, Computational Thinking, e-Learning, Moodle, Wordpress and Agile UX.

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“We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies

that haven’t been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t know are

problems yet.”From Did You Know? by Karl Fisch, Arapahoe High School, Colorado

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Computational Thinking

Computational Thinking in Australian Education Context

Computational Thinking

Application in T&L

Next Step and

Reflection

TODAY


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Abstraction

Algorithm Design

Automation

Data Collection

Data Analysis

Data Representation

Decomposition

Parallelisation

Pattern Generalisation

Simulation

Pattern Recognition


DefinitionAbstraction is identifying and extracting relevant information to define main idea(s).

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Definition

Algorithm Design is creating an ordered series of instructions for solving similar problems or for doing a task.

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Teaching Tip

Give the example of how in mathematics, when we add and subtract fractions with different denominators, we follow an algorithm.

Ex: 1/7 + 2/6 =

=(7*6):7*1/(7*6 )+ (7*6):6*2/(7*6)

=20/42 = 10/21


Definition

Automation is having computers or machines do repetitive tasks.

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Teaching TipShow how automation can be used to perform tasks that would take a very long time to complete using a manual process, such as identifying the migration patterns of a specific demographic based on census data.

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LOON Project: Using Balloons and Data to Bring the Internet to the World


Definition

Data Collection is gathering information.

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Teaching Tip

Have students engage in the process of collecting data by having them gather the birthday and gender of their peers and record it in a spreadsheet.

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Using Data and Creativity to Provide Support in Times of Disaster


Definition

Data Analysis is making sense of data by finding patterns or developing insights.

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Teaching Tip 1

Ask students to formulate their own questions that can be addressed with data collection; work through data together to answer them.

Teaching Tip 2

Using data sets with anonymized personal data, such as height, shoe size, favorite color, etc., show how data analysis can be used to highlight information that is meaningful and relevant to your students.

Findable Photos Using Data and Algorithms

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Definition

Data Representation is depicting and organising data in appropriate graphs, charts, words, or images.

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Teaching Tip 1

Plot data manually on the whiteboard or via projector so that your students can see the process of how the organization unfolds.

Teaching Tip 2

Ask your students which visual representation is best for a given data set and work through some less relevant visualizations first. Discuss as a class why the data should be represented in one way or another.


Definition

Decomposition is breaking down data, processes, or problems into smaller, manageable parts

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Teaching Tip 1

In mathematics, we can decompose a number such as 256.37 as follows: 2*102+5*101+6*100+3*.

Teaching Tip 2

In science we decompose a projectile’s velocity into its components along the x- and y-axis.

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Definition

Parallelisation is simultaneous processing of smaller tasks from a larger task to more efficiently reach a common goal.

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Teaching Tip

Define the common goal at the outset, and then have your students work in groups. Assign different tasks to each group to work toward the common goal. Photo Source:

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Definition

Pattern Generalisation is creating models, rules, principles, or theories of observed patterns to test predicted outcomes.

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Definition

Pattern Recognition is observing patterns, trends, and regularities in data.

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Teaching Tip

Have your students identify trends in stock price cycles that may suggest when they should be bought and sold.


Definition

Simulation is developing a model to imitate real-world processes.

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Teaching Tip

Have your students illustrate the movement of a solar system by modeling the gravitationally curved path of an object around a point in space.


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Foundation to Year 2

Foundational Skills in Computational Thinking

Awareness of Personal Experience using Digital

System


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Develop and improve the CT skills of your students!


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Use abstraction to define steps involved in achieving something


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Years 3 and 4

Categorising and outlining procedure

Developing and increasing awareness of how digital

system are used and could be used at home, in school and

the local community.


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Exploring digital systems – its components and peripheral devices, i.e. microscopes, cameras, interactive whiteboards

Collecting, manipulating and interpreting data, developing an understanding of the characteristics of data and their representation.

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• Record solutions to problems.• Develop designing skills by following prepared algorithms as well as

describing own algorithm that support branching (choice of options) and user input.

• Use visual programming languages (coding) to implement solutions.


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Teacher Resources

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Developing CT Skills: Pattern Recognition, Pattern Generalisation and

Decomposition

Focus on sustainability of information system for current

and future uses.

Years 5 and 6

Games, animations, interactive stories, quizzes.


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“No appreciable improvements in student achievement in reading, mathematics, or science." What's more, the study found technology to be of little help in "bridging the skills divide between advantaged and disadvantaged students." And then there was this headline-grabber: "Students who use computers very frequently at school do worse than their peers."

Students, Computers and LearningMaking the Connection - OECD Report

Existing educational technology has failed to produce desired learning outcomes


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Teachers do not need to control technology as simply a teaching tool to enhance instruction. Instead they should

relinquish some of their teaching responsibilities to technology and shift their energy to do things that technology cannot do. This calls for a re-conceptualization of the relationship as a

partnership between teachers and technology.

Technology is not teachers’ substitute

Yong Zhao in a recent Washington Blog Post “Five Big Mistakes in Education Technology

and How to Fix Them”


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