The document is a guide for teaching computational thinking using Kodu Game Lab at St Hugh's RC Primary School, authored by Jamie Edmondson. It outlines activities that involve designing games and programming bots to perform tasks based on visual stimuli, encouraging hands-on learning. Additionally, it suggests using screencasting to assess and explain the programming involved in the created games.

1. Using Kodu to develop
Computational Thinking
St Hugh’s RC Primary, May 2018
Jamie Edmondson
Computing Leader, Our Lady’s RC Primary School, Manchester
CAS Master Teacher
@jecomputing
jamie.edmondson@computingatschool.org.uk

2. What is Computational Thinking?
Concepts and Approaches
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3. Computing PoS

4. Tinkering
1. Open up Kodu Game Lab and
select ‘Load New World’
2. Import a bot of your choosing
3. Have a go at the activity on
you flash card.
4. Once completed move on to
another flash card.

5. The Concept of ‘Selection’
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Kodu/ Manipulatives courtesy of David S. Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University

6. Paired Programming Challenges (rally coaching)
Can you compose an algorithm that will...?
1. Get Rover bot to move towards and apple when it sees it?
2. Instruct a bot (any) to shoot a missile everytime it sees a ball?
3. Get Kodu to say “There’s a star” every time it sees a star?
4. Play the sound ‘coin’ every time a bot bumps into a heart
5. Instruct the cycle to eat an object (e.g. apple) and score 1 point each time
it does?
Thanks to Dave Touretzky for these these Kodu manipulatives, available here

7. Your Turn!
Design and create your own Kodu game!
WAGOLL (Year One)!
● Use the game planning sheet provided to design your game.
● Use the manipulatives and flash cards to support if need be.

8. ScreenCasting
Assessing your work!
Open up Screencast-O-Matic and record yourself playing your game.
Explain your programming and how your game works...

9. Any Questions?
St Hugh’s RC Primary, May 2018
Jamie Edmondson
Computing Leader, Our Lady’s RC Primary School
CAS Master Teacher
@jecomputing
jamie.edmondson@computingatschool.org.uk