My students in STEAM are going to begin learning the basics of computer coding. What they are really learning is a new concept called "computational thinking". What is computational thinking?
Jeanette Wing explains it as "Computational thinking is the thought processes involved in formulating a
problem and expressing its solution(s) in such a way that a
computer—human or machine—can effectively carry out."
Here is a link to one of her articles: Jeannette Wing
Students in STEAM read Hello Ruby...now we are doing two thinking activities to start thinking logically. With the help of two college students, we made a human maze to practice coding. Students took turns being the "robot" and being the programmers - Floor coding blog
The other students were working on coding a Lego maze. The students were to cover the grey areas in Legos. The second step was to take the direction cards and figure out how to get from START to END. The students had to work collaboratively and creatively to get through this activity. The links to the documents are in this article - Coding a Lego Maze
Students are going to be taking simple directions of forward, turn right, turn left and working through the 40 FREE levels of Kodable.
Look for more information on students progress on this topic!
Here is a great article from my curriculum director to read on this topic :)
Should All Students Learn Coding?
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