The document discusses applying computational thinking in education. It defines several types of thinking including systems thinking, computational thinking, design thinking, futures thinking, and strategic thinking. It then lists some big problems facing the world like global warming, food scarcity, and overpopulation. The document goes on to define key aspects of computational thinking including systems thinking, abstraction, data and information systems, algorithms and programming, digital systems, and implications and impacts. It provides examples of how computational thinking can be brought into the classroom through activities and projects involving things like Bee Bots, guessing games, computer games, mobile apps, websites, robotics, interfaces, wearables, and expert systems.

1. Applying
Computational Thinking
Technologies Education

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5. Systems Thinking
Computational Thinking
Design Thinking
Futures Thinking
Strategic Thinking

6. Systems Thinking
Computational Thinking
Design Thinking
Futures Thinking
Strategic Thinking
Solutions Thinking

7. Global Warming
Armed Conflicts
Food Scarcity
Clean Water
Ageing Population
Obesity
Overpopulation
Alternative Energy
Education
Health Care
Epidemics
Housing and Shelter
Big Problems

8. Systems Thinking
Modelling problem
Identifying subsystems
Interactions with other
systems

9. Computational Thinking
Analyse the problem

10. Computational Thinking
Analyse the problem
Collecting, managing and
analysing data about the
problem and solution

11. Computational Thinking
Creating a digital solution
• defining the problem
• designing a solution
• implementing the design
• evaluating the solution
• collaborating on and managing

12. Computational Thinking
Abstraction
Data & Information Systems
Algorithms and Programming
Digital Systems
Implications and Impacts

13. Abstraction
The process of reducing complexity to formulate generalised
fundamental ideas or concepts removed from the specific
details or situation. For example, the idea that a cricket ball is a
sphere in the same way that a soccer ball is, or the concept that
data can be organised in records made up of fields irrespective
of whether the data are numbers, text, images or something else.

14. Computational Thinking
Abstraction
Data & Information Systems
Algorithms and Programming
Digital Systems
Implications and Impacts

15. Data collection,
representation and
interpretation
The properties of data, how they are collected and represented,
and how they are interpreted in context to produce information.

16. Computational Thinking
Abstraction
Data & Information Systems
Algorithms and Programming
Digital Systems
Implications and Impacts

17. Specification, algorithms and
implementation
Specification describes the process of defining and
communicating a problem precisely and clearly.

18. Specification, algorithms and
implementation
Algorithms describing of the steps and decisions needed to
solve a problem.

19. Specification, algorithms and
implementation
Implementation of the algorithm using software or writing a
computer program.

20. Computational Thinking
Abstraction
Data & Information Systems
Algorithms and Programming
Digital Systems
Implications and Impacts

21. Digital systems
Hardware and software (computer architecture and the
operating system), and networks and the internet (wireless,
mobile and wired networks and protocols).

22. Computational Thinking
Abstraction
Data & Information Systems
Algorithms and Programming
Digital Systems
Implications and Impacts

23. Interactions and impacts
Interactions (people and digital systems, data and processes)
and impacts (sustainability and empowerment).

32. Curriculum into the Classroom

33. Bee Bots

34. Big Problem
Project Based Learning
Thinking Skills
Curriculum Outcomes

35. Guessing Game

36. Big Problem
Project Based Learning
Thinking Skills
Curriculum Outcomes

37. Computer Games

38. Big Problem
Project Based Learning
Thinking Skills
Curriculum Outcomes

39. Mobile Apps

40. Big Problem
Project Based Learning
Thinking Skills
Curriculum Outcomes

41. Dynamic Websites

42. Big Problem
Project Based Learning
Thinking Skills
Curriculum Outcomes

43. Mapping

44. Big Problem
Project Based Learning
Thinking Skills
Curriculum Outcomes

45. Robotics

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47. Big Problem
Project Based Learning
Thinking Skills
Curriculum Outcomes

48. Interfaces

49. Picoboard

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51. Big Problem
Project Based Learning
Thinking Skills
Curriculum Outcomes

52. Wearables

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55. Big Problem
Project Based Learning
Thinking Skills
Curriculum Outcomes

56. Expert Systems

57. Expert Systems

58. Artificial Intelligence

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60. Griffith University
Dr Jason Zagami
www.zagami.info