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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Yr7-10it <yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Roland Gesthuizen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 6 May 2019 9:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> yr7-10it@edulists.com.au; OZTeachers Mailing List <ozteachers@googlegroups.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Yr7-10it] CT and HCI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This is a bit deep but I thought to share it here. A preservice teacher with a solid CS background remarked a couple of weeks ago about the maturity of junior
secondary students to think about coding and computational thinking (CT), remarking that there are many pedagogical and maturity challenges. I have been reading up about CT and the benefits to students, even if they don't go on to study CS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lu, J. J., & Fletcher, G. H. L. (2009). Thinking About Computational Thinking. <i>Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education</i>, 260–264. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/1508865.1508959"><span style="color:#0036AE;text-decoration:none">https://doi.org/10.1145/1508865.1508959</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Much of the recent thinking comes from this discussion paper by Wing that points out the unplugged nature of CT, that it goes beyond just the hardware and software (and perhaps even the programming). This is quite
readable at 2 pages and well worth a glance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wing, J. (2006). Computational thinking. <i>Communications of the ACM</i>, <i>49</i>(3), 33–35. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/1118178.1118215"><span style="color:#0036AE;text-decoration:none">https://doi.org/10.1145/1118178.1118215</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Computational thinking is <span style="background:yellow">reformulating a seemingly difficult problem into one we know how to solve</span>, perhaps by reduction, embedding, transformation, or simulation ... Computational
thinking is <span style="background:yellow">thinking recursively</span>. It is parallel processing. It is interpreting <span style="background:yellow">code as data and data as code</span>... Computational thinking is using <span style="background:yellow">abstraction
and decomposition</span> when attacking a large complex task or designing a large complex system. It is separation of concerns. (Wing 2006:33)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The debate is still going on with this recent post that is even challenges, do we need to even program to teach about CT? What is the role for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) when we consider how Scratch made it
easier to teach coding? Have a think about this notion of reducing the friction between people and computers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Guzdial, M. (2019, April 29). A new definition of Computational Thinking: It’s the Friction that we want to Minimize unless it’s Generative, (2019) Mark Guzdial [Blog]. Retrieved from Computing Education website: <a href="https://computinged.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/what-is-computational-thinking-its-the-friction-that-we-want-to-minimize/"><span style="color:#0036AE;text-decoration:none">https://computinged.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/what-is-computational-thinking-its-the-friction-that-we-want-to-minimize/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"<span style="background:yellow">computational thinking is about framing problems so that computers can solve them</span> ... To meet Alan Kay's point about generativity, there are some things in computing that <span style="background:yellow">we
want to teach because they give us new leverage on thinking</span>. <span style="background:yellow">We want to teach things that are useful</span>, but not those that are necessary just because we have bad user interfaces." (Guzdial 2019:2)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you feel brave for a reply, please share your thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best of Wishes, Roland Gesthuizen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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