Computers and Critical Thinking

Intermediate

Education and industry experts emphasize critical thinking as a 21st century imperative. Per Bloom’s Taxonomy, critical thinking implies progressing to a higher order of thinking from just remembering facts to understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating. In this program, children learn to utilize spreadsheet as a tool to organize, analyze and synthesize information to help with decision making. They also venture into automation to make fun games like an automated puzzle and MadLibs Robot. stemforkids.net/courses/computers-and-critical-thinking/

Common Core Mathematical Practice 1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them; 2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively; 4 Model with mathematics; 7 Look for and make use of structure; CSTA Computer Science Standards: Computational Thinking Connections L1:6-6, Computing Practice and Programming Using technology tools for creation L1:3-3, L1:6-4, Data collection and analysis L1:3-6, L1:6-10, Computers and Communication Devices Computers L1:3-1, L1:6-1. Math

Usage: Camp

Prerequisites: None