COMPUTATIONAL THINKING | Mind Map

APPLICATIONS IN TEACHING & LEARNING

To abstract general principles and apply to other situations

Computational thinking as the automation of abstractions

Problem-solving which abstracting existing knowledge and skills to solve an unanswered question

PLUGGED IN

CT CONCEPTS

sequences

Loops

Parallelism

Events

Conditionals

Operators

Data

CT PRACTICES

Incremental and iterative

Testing and debugging

Reusing and remixing

Abstracting and modularizing

CT PERSPECTIVES

Expressing

Connecting

Questioning

APPLYING CT IN ASSIGNMENT

e-portfolio

Augmented Reality

Scratch

UNPLUGGED

CT FACETS

Decomposition

Abstraction

Algorithms

Debugging

Iteration

Generalization

CT COMPETENCIES

Algorithmic thinking

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Cooperativity

Creativity

APPLICATION IN K-12

Elementary Education

Music or Dance

Mathematics

Science

BENEFITS

Moves students beyond technology literacy

Creates problem solvers instead of software users

Encourages creativity and problem-solving

A way that human thinks which combines problem solving and critical thinking