BCS, the Chartered Institute of IT, in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom (UK), have developed freely downloadable guides to the UK’s new computational thinking curriculum. The guides were written especially for primary (elementary) and secondary teachers to demystify the study of computational thinking in primary and secondary schools.
TurtleArt lets students make images with their computer. The turtle follows a sequence of commands. Students specify the sequence by snapping together puzzle-like blocks.
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In Computational Thinking for Educators, Google’s newly launched freeonline course, teachers will learn what computational thinking (CT) is and how it can be integrated into a variety of subject areas.