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"One of the core computational thinking skills our students practice across all courses is pattern recognition, which we define as analyzing trends in data to inform solutions"

How Data Science Adds Computational Thinking—and Fun—to Gym Class - EdSurge News It’s the bottom of the ninth with two outs and it’s all tied up. You’ve got a runner on first base and you need to decide who you’re sending to the ...

Scratch + Google = Next Generation of Programming Blocks for Kids By the MIT Scratch Team

"Archaeologists write programs to piece together fragments of ancient ruins. Economists apply deep learning models to financial data. Linguists write programs to study statistical properties of literary works. Physicists study computational models of the universe to analyze its origins. Musicians work with synthesized sound. Biologists seek patterns in genomes. Geologists study the evolution of landscapes. Artists work with digital images."

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Why every student should study computer science (opinion)

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TechSake is an education management company, founded by BITS Pilani and VNIT Graduates, which is aimed at activity based technology education for students in schools.
Having validated the idea in Pune, we are now building up our success stories in Delhi NCR. We are actively seeking to connect with people who have a distinct passion for teaching (part time) and motivated to work in a start up culture. Anyone looking for a similar opportunity or is interested for the same, can direct message to me or comment on the post.

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TechSake offers curated game development courses to students enhancing their skillset and make their creative ideas a reality, also seamlessly transitioning to text languages such as JavaScript and Python

Can Designing Video Games Help Kids Gain Hard and Soft Skills? - EdSurge News Steve Isaacs has long identified as a gamer. And when he’s not spending time with some of his favorites—StarCraft and Hearthstone—he’s teaching middle ...

No matter what the career path is, the benefit of computer science extends far beyond coding for every student. In the coming years, programming will be taught just like reading and writing... And the world would be wondering why we didn't do it sooner!

Student Voices: Why all kids need to learn computer science The biggest reward of learning computer science for Issaquah student Hallie Chen was computational thinking, or breaking down problems into segments to solve one at a time. The benefits of computer science extend far beyond coding for any student, she...

Higher-order thinking, known as higher order thinking skills (HOTS), is a concept of "education reform" based on learning taxonomies (such as Bloom's taxonomy). The idea is that some types of learning require more cognitive processing than others, but also have more generalized benefits. In Bloom's taxonomy, for example, skills involving analysis, evaluation and synthesis (creation of new knowledge) are thought to be of a higher order than the learning of facts and concepts which requires different learning and teaching methods.

Higher-order thinking involves the learning of complex judgmental skills such as critical thinking and problem solving. Higher-order thinking is more difficult to learn or teach but also more valuable because such skills are more likely to be usable in novel situations (i.e., situations other than those in which the skill was learned).

Anvitha Vijay is the youngest app developer at WWDC (Apple Worldwide Developers Conference). The budding developer got into programming after she created an app concept called "GoalsHi" when she was 7. The app concept won her a $10,000 prize in a contest in Perth, she says. "After that many people told me to get into coding, and I thought ‘I have to get into coding if I want to make it real.’"

She particularly likes building app prototypes and wireframing (sketching) all the screens. "I find UX design really cool because it goes into problem solving and how everything really works," she says. "I find that prototyping, coding, and experience are all kind of linked because it all goes to the flow of how the app works."

When asked where she thinks all this app-building might lead, she said - "I want to be an innovator to build things that people will love and make a difference in people’s lives through technology, so I think this is one of my first steps toward doing that".



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The best advice for teaching coding to elementary students is to start small by participating in a coding activity and see the urge for more from your students. Allow them to personalize their learning by choosing their coding path. Give them room to explore new and exciting worlds.

The truth is, whether you are a teacher or parent, you have an enormous influence on kids futures. Yes, we’re preparing students for jobs that don’t exist, but we’re also helping them discover the passions that will drive them throughout their lifetime.

Problem-solving skills are almost unanimously the most important qualification required in all engineering discplines. Various fields of computer programming tell the same story - as more than programming languages proficiency, debugging, and system design - having problem-solving skills is a path to a good programming career.

Demonstrating computational thinking or the ability to break down large, complex problems is just as valuable (if not more so) than the baseline technical skills required for a programming job.

Software startup companies have a hybrid need, which is a blend of good problem-solving skills, and knowledge of language along with framework - since they need to launch products quickly, and frameworks help developers to write features faster. On the other hand, large software companies mostly care about problem-solving skills.

If these trends are to be believed - does our education system also care enough about developing such abilities in the young minds? If we happened to have such a hypothetical system, then students would be
rewarded for trying out things and failing fast, allowing them to inculcate problem-solving abilities in any given domain.

The first web page went live on August 6, 1991. Since then, the internet has bestowed upon us its wealth of information - that can be accessed anywhere, anytime. Everyone and everything is constantly connected, and with this connectivity, digital intelligence has grown rapidly thanks to increasing access to global data.

Information and logic can be accessed equally by engineers in Nasa and rural farmers in Nigeria. Combine that with innovations such as AI and deep learning, the pillars of old learning model are beginning to shake.

The old approach does not equip learners or employees to effectively deal with a world where technology can do what people do, better, faster and with no errors. It’s time to take a radical approach to education and start teaching people how to do rather than how to learn.

In this modern era, technology literacy is one of the most important skills that we can give our children. For kids coding and computer programming are skill sets that not only encourage great critical thinking skills, but also are highly desired in the workforce, later in their lives.

Hence it's necessary to give the youth an early start on learning useful technology skills. But how do we get started if we aren’t computer programmers ourselves?

One of the first concepts that early coders learn is what an algorithm is. An algorithm is a set of instructions given to a computer in order to execute a task. We use algorithms every day! When we get dressed we first put on our shirt, and then our pants, and then our socks. These are everyday algorithms at work!