Seymour Aubrey Papert was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator. He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence and of the constructionist movement in education.
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Seven components to computational thinking
Collect data, analyze data, find patterns, decompose problems, abstract, build models and develop algorithms
Continue readingDeveloping students’ creativity, inventiveness and problem-solving skills
Invention education changes students’ lives by helping them learn how to develop problem-solving skills and ways of working with others to invent novel solutions that improve lives.
Continue readingLet’s teach kids to code
Mitchel Resnick is the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab. In this TED talk, Resnick talks about the need to teach kids to code.
Continue readingThinking Routines – Project Zero
Learn about the practices that support the development of thinking routines. Outcome of Project Zero from Harvard Graduate School of Education
Continue readingComputer Programming for Kids
Computing terminology can be tricky and confusing. ‘Coding’, ‘programming’, ‘computational thinking’ and ‘computer science’ are often used interchangeably to mean the same thing. To avoid confusion, let’s start out by getting them straight.
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