![]() ![]() With nothing but paper and markers, students will learn the four steps of computational thinking. This lesson gives students the opportunity to practice the four arts of computational thinking (decomposition, pattern matching, abstraction, and algorithms) in one cohesive activity. Instead, students will use examples of what imaginary players have done to figure out how to play the game. This lesson will help students intuitively understand why combining chunks of code into functions is such a helpful practice, and how they can use those structures even when chunks of code are slightly different.įor this activity, no instructions are provided. Functions (sometimes called procedures) are mini programs that you can use over and over inside of your bigger program. One of the most magnificent structures in the computer science world is the function. This use of generic placeholders is a wonderful introduction to variables.Īctivity Answer Key Assessment Answer Key To effectively allow for this, students will need to “abstract out” the details of their specific materials and create vague terms for an individual’s supplies. The final program will be geared toward the entire class, whatever their type of string, beads, and charms. Once those skills are defined, they will be called from a main program and the whole beautiful process of creation will be recorded on a single sheet of paper. The students will follow a series of repetitive steps, then be asked to identify certain sets of “skills” that are duplicated several times. Like with so many things, we don’t know what we don’t know until we’ve tried it.In this lesson, students will make a suncatcher out of string, beads, and a special charm. Like the marketing messages that bombard and overload us on a daily basis, most of us do need to hear some things many times before the message begins to sink in and we give it a higher value. It’s certainly not time to be using it for wrapping our chips in. While we’ve all heard the headline by now, that unplugging and going offline is good for us. Being At The Cottage – No Information Overload The difficulty is that we can’t do without this technology, whereas cigarettes, though they are addictive, they aren’t a necessity. We won’t know for many years the cumulative damage that it may be doing. Just plug in and go online to discover the plethora of studies about the damage that EMF (electrical magnetic frequencies) could be doing to us all and the multitude of benefits of stepping away into solitude – or ‘scrolitude’ (my word for solitude from screens).Īccording to one researcher, today’s technology could be compared to the arrival of the cigarette centuries ago. Unplugging from tech isn’t new or news anymore. I was ensconced in my own world and thoughts with nothing and no-one to distract me from whatever I chose to do. I spent the week with the privilege of living to my own rhythm, time passing as it chose. ![]() There is always a tangible, unpolluted purity at the cottage regardless of the weather. In spite of that week being the warmest winter week ever recorded and there was not a breath of wind to stir the tops of the trees, the stillness was much deeper than that. I was cocooned in the complete stillness of the place. Part of me wished that there was still no electricity. No mobile reception, no television, no WiFi. I’d spent the week at Graig Ddu, also known as the cottage in the forest, just being – completely unplugged. I was unaware of this national day of unplugging because, the irony is that I already was. Returning our attention to, arguably, fundamentally more important things. Going offline, taking some time away from the ubiquitous screens that have insinuated themselves into our lives. While some of today’s music stars do perform unplugged, in the 21 st century going unplugged has different connotations. In the 1990’s getting unplugged meant rock stars like Eric Clapton moved away from the embellishment of their electrical set-up and returned to acoustic guitars with a stripped back, purer sound, and made some stunning music. Last Friday, 1 st March, was a national day of unplugging.
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