Junkbots and computational thinking
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Computational thinking concepts and how they link to the Junkbots project.
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Junkbots and computational thinking
- 2. ComputationalThinking Junkbot Where the project is now? What is the link?
- 3. What is Computational Thinking Wing (2006) “ComputationalThinking” COMMUNICATIONSOFTHE ACM March 2006/Vol. 49, No. 3 pp. 33-35 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/w ww/publications/Wing06.pdf
- 4. What is Computational Thinking Conceptualizing, not programming. Computer science is not computer programming.Thinking like a computer scientist means more than being able to program a computer
- 5. What is Computational Thinking Fundamental, not rote skill. A fundamental skill is something every human being must know to function in modern society
- 6. What is Computational Thinking A way that humans, not computers, think. Computational thinking is a way humans solve problems; it is not trying to get humans to think like computers. Computer ‘thinking’ is dull.
- 7. What is Computational Thinking Complements and combines mathematical and engineering thinking. Computer science: - draws on mathematical thinking - draws on engineering thinking, given that we build systems that interact with the real world.
- 8. What is Computational Thinking For everyone, everywhere. Computational thinking will be a reality when it is so integral to human endeavors it disappears as an explicit philosophy. - it is reality when we no longer need to define it seperately – it just is!
- 9. Education changes There is a move in many countries to address the lack of computational thinking in schools. In the UK - https://www.gov.uk/government/publicat ions/national-curriculum-in-england- computing-programmes-of- study/national-curriculum-in-england- computing-programmes-of-study
- 11. Junkbots 12 hours of STEM activities to over 100 secondary school students.
- 12. Junkbots Three areas Programming a Lego robot to clear junk. A set of activities onWaste Management Building a moving ‘bot’ out of junk.
- 13. Junkbots Programming a Lego robot to clear junk. Building a moving ‘bot’ out of junk. … ComputationalThinking elements
- 14. Junkbots
- 15. Success Original target of 100 students getting 12 hours of STEM activity – meet Approx. 200 (and growing) have had the two computing/engineering focussed activities. Now for the Primary Schools/Youth Groups This is the growth area.
- 17. What Happened Next The computing elements strengthened. Others start delivering sessions.
- 18. Now – Junkbots and Raspberry Pi HaydenTetley – Scratch based
- 19. Now – Junkbots and Raspberry Pi
- 20. Now – Junkbots and Raspberry Pi James Mitchell – Python and Raspberry Pi Move the programming on. Graphical interface using Blockly Going to be a Secondary School Teacher and is awinner of BCS Scholarship to train.
- 22. SoWhat? All the approaches are facilitated Tinkering Creating Debugging Perseverance Collaboration
- 23. SoWhat? Non Programming junkbots Abstraction Decomposition Patterns Logic Evaluation Programming adds the Algorithms
- 24. Funders East Midlands DevelopmentAgency STEM SouthWest Nuffield Bursary
- 26. Question How are the changes in curriculum going to effect University curriculum?