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Workshop on CT Skills

Developed by N. Pappa, K. Papanikolaou

and the FERTILE Group

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This material, including all its parts, is licensed under the Creative�Commons BY-SA 4.0. Please visit the license terms at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.

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Collaboration protocol

    • Participate in a short playful activity to understand the skill

Practice

    • Design in groups a small activity for cultivating the skill

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Design

    • Present the design in the class.

Present

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1. Abstraction

“Tell me without telling me”

about a movie, theatre play, greek tragedy etc

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Instructions:

  • Discuss with your group members and decide on the tragedy you will describe.
  • Think about 3 keywords not including any characters’ or locations’ names.
  • One member of the group reveals the three words to the other groups.
  • The rest of the groups have to guess the tragedy described.

10 min

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Abstraction Activity

Instructions:

  • Design with your group members a short activity for your students in order to cultivate Abstraction.
  • You are free to choose any Subject to implement the activity. (Music, Robotics, Arts & Crafts, Biology etc.)

10 min

Worksheet

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2. Decomposition

Instructions:

  • Watch the short movie
  • Scan the QR code and write the main components of the story:
  • Characters,
  • place of action,
  • time of action and
  • main theme

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2. Decomposition

Instructions:

  • Watch the short movie
  • Scan the QR code and write the main components of the story:
  • Characters,
  • place of action,
  • time of action and
  • main theme

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Decomposition Activity

10 min

Instructions:

  • Design with your group members a short activity for your students in order to cultivate Decomposition.
  • You are free to choose any Subject to implement the activity. (Music, Robotics, Arts & Crafts, Biology etc.)

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3. Pattern Recognition

  • Scan the QR code and try to answer the questions!

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10 min

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3. Pattern Recognition �Quiz

10 min

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Question 1

Which of the following paintings does not belong to the same artist?

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Question 1

Which of the following paintings does not belong to the same artist?

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Question 2

Which of the following paintings does not belong to the same artist?

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Question 2

Which of the following paintings does not belong to the same artist?

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Question 3

Which of the following paintings does not belong to the same artist?

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Question 3

Which of the following paintings does not belong to the same artist?

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Pattern Recognition Activity

10 min

Instructions:

  • Design with your group members a short activity for your students in order to cultivate Pattern Recognition.
  • You are free to choose any Subject to implement the activity. (Music, Robotics, Arts & Crafts, Biology etc.)

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4. Algorithmic Thinking

https://makecode.microbit.org/_8FkLFzVTM5JH

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Let's play rock-paper-scissors!

In the link below you will find the instructions of a program that creates the game rock paper scissors with micro:bit. What you have to do is put the instructions in order and run the program in the simulator.

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Algorithmic Thinking Activity

10 min

Instructions:

  • Design with your group members a short activity for your students in order to cultivate Algorithmic Thinking.
  • You are free to choose any Subject to implement the activity. (It is not necessary to use programming)

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5. Evaluation

Instructions: Watch the two short videos and evaluate the presentation on the following criteria

Requirements

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  1. Navigating from the starting point to ending point.
  2. Making 90 degrees turns (left/right).
  3. Obstacle avoidance (players).
  4. Throughs an object (ball) into the goal.
  5. Play sound. (audience screaming)

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5. Evaluation

10 min

Instructions:

  • Design with your group members a short activity for your students in order to cultivate Algorithmic Thinking.
  • You are free to choose any Subject to implement the activity. (It is not necessary to use Robotics activity)

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“Find the CT skill” Kahoot!

20 min

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Self/group assessment� Quiz

10 min

“Find the CT Skill”

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Question 1

The students color the missing shapes of the picture.

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Abstraction

Decomposition

Pattern Recognition

Evaluation

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Question 1

The students color the missing shapes of the picture.

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Abstraction

Decomposition

Pattern Recognition

Evaluation

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Question 2

The students create a flipbook. (cut the paper, think the story, and draw)

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Abstraction

Decomposition

Pattern Recognition

Algorithmic Thinking

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Question 2

The students create a flipbook. (cut the paper, think the story, and draw)

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Abstraction

Decomposition

Pattern Recognition

Algorithmic Thinking

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Question 3

The students write a review of a story/book based on specific criteria about the plot, the characters and the language.

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Decomposition

Pattern Recognition

Evaluation

Algorithmic Thinking

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Question 3

The students write a review of a story/book based on specific criteria about the plot, the characters and the language.

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Decomposition

Pattern Recognition

Evaluation

Algorithmic Thinking

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Question 4

In this activity, by counting the times that the same movement is repeated students cultivate Pattern Recognition.,

True

False

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Question 4

In this activity, by counting the times that the same movement is repeated students cultivate Pattern Recognition.,

True

False

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Question 5

The students put in order the dancer's movements as it is shown in the picture.�

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Abstraction &

Decomposition

Algorithmic Thinking & Pattern Recognition

Decomposition &

Algorithmic Thinking

Decomposition & Pattern Recognition

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Question 5

The students put in order the dancer's movements as it is shown in the picture.�

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Abstraction &

Decomposition

Algorithmic Thinking & Pattern Recognition

Decomposition &

Algorithmic Thinking

Decomposition & Pattern Recognition

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Question 6

Computational Thinking is a problem-solving technique related only to Computer Science.

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False

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Question 6

Computational Thinking is a problem-solving technique related only to Computer Science.

True

False

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Question 7

The students create origami animals following a worksheet or tutorial video instructions.

Abstraction

Decomposition

Pattern Recognition

Algorithmic Thinking

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Question 7

The students create origami animals following a worksheet or tutorial video instructions.

Abstraction

Decomposition

Pattern Recognition

Algorithmic Thinking

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Question 7

The students create origami animals following a worksheet or tutorial video instructions.

Abstraction

Decomposition

Pattern Recognition

Algorithmic Thinking

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Question 8

The students have to find which robot in the picture secretly walked around the store and left a trail of footprints. the robot.

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Abstraction

Decomposition

Pattern Recognition

Algorithmic Thinking

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Credits 1/2

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The Workshop on CT Skills © 2023 by N.Pappa, K.Papanikolaou and the FERTILE group is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Abstraction Activity

Adapted from https://www.barefootcomputing.org/docs/default-source/at-home/mini-missions_online_resourcegrid.pdf

Picture https://www.blerkins.com/single-post/2017/10/07/%E1%97%85%E1%97%BA%E1%97%B7%E1%97%85-and-the-death-of-agamemnon

Decomposition activity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=badHUNl2HXU&list=PLmYjIm5PZy33O_ci8XWlPedLtL045_7yD&index=6

Algorithmic Thinking Activity

Adapted from https://makecode.microbit.org/projects/rock-paper-scissors

Pattern Recognition Activity Quiz pictures

From WIKIART Visual Art Encyclopedia (https://www.wikiart.org/). In public domain

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Kahoot

Q1 image https://www.braingymmer.com/en/brain-games/patterned_logic/play/

Q2 image https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=flip%20book%20animation

Q3 image https://www.freepik.com/free-vector

Q4 image Román-González et al.(2017) Computational Thinking Test. Computers in human behavior

Q5 Adapted from Bebras UK http://www.pacosv.ro/2018/Bebras17UK.pdf

Q6 https://www.csunplugged.org/en/what-is-computer-science/

Q7 https://www.freepik.com/premium-vector/origami-animals-set_4257288.htm

Q8 Adapted from Bebras Australia 2021 Solutions Guide Round 1 https://www.csiro.au/-/media/Digital-Careers/Files/Bebras-Files/Bebras-Solutions-Guide-2021-R1-Primary.pdf

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