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Ask many teachers what computational thinking is and they’ll look at you with a blank face. I used to feel like that! But actually, I’ve come to realise it’s not that complicated at all.

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The scientific method is an algorithm. Figuring out what went wrong with a project is a kind of debugging. Breaking a math question into parts is decomposition, and learning history can involve looking for patterns.

“You actually are all already doing some computational thinking without calling it out,” Diane Levitt, senior director of K-12 education at Cornell Tech, told around 60 teachers and administrators from Ithaca and neighboring school districts in a Sept. 28 workshop, “Inspiring a Passion for Computational Thinking,” in Clark Hall. “You can introduce these concepts to your students without even knowing a line of code.”

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Discover your next incredible build in the latest edition of The MagPi magazine

Plus! Spooktacular Halloween costume projects; the Stonehenge Skyscape; learn to code with Scratch 3; the best video game accessories; build a dashcam with Dride Zero for Raspberry Pi, and much more.

 

Digital Download Available Here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/MagPi86.pdf

 

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