Week 7  Reflection

This week we focused on computational thinking. Computational thinking is not only embedded into Digital Technologies, it is also embedded in other areas of the Australian Curriculum as well including Science, Social studies, maths and the arts. Computational thinking can be broken down into 4 main parts; patterns, decomposition, abstraction and algorithms.

We completed an activity in class this week called 'Thinking Myself'. This activity introduced the class to four processes of computational thinking, as mentioned above. This activity was interesting at first as I had never seen it before but was helpful in demonstrating each process. A few of the activities didn't give any instructions to the audience and left you a bit dumbfounded but after giving it a go it became easier. Whilst the activity is aimed at how the audience interacts, without any given instruction I feel this activity would be aimed at higher grades such as year 5 or 6. Younger students may find this boring as they look for instructional advise first instead of using their initiative.