This document discusses the Australian curriculum for digital technologies and computing education. It provides an overview of computational thinking skills like decomposition, pattern recognition, and algorithm design. It also lists various coding resources and platforms that can be used to teach these skills from ages 5 to senior secondary school. Computational thinking is presented as an essential skill for all students in the 21st century.

1. DIgital Technologies
Australian Curriculum: Technologies
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2. Dr Jason Zagami
jason.zagami.info
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3. Lecturer
Griffith University
School of Education and Professional Studies
Gold Coast
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6. ADE
Apple Distinguished Educator
Google Certified Teacher
Australian HP Innovations In Education Mentor
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7. Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education
Immediate Past President
Australian Council for
Computers in Education
Editor
Australian Educational Computing
Australian College of
Educators
(Gold Coast Region)
President
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8. Curriculum Development
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9. Developmental
Curriculum
Foundation Year 10
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10. Technologies
Learning Area
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11. Indicative Timings
F-2 10 Hours
3-4 20 Hours
5-6 30 Hours
7-10 40 Hours
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12. UK dis-application
ICT as a subject name carries negative
connotations of a dated and unchallenging
curriculum that does not serve the needs and
ambitions of pupils. Changing the subject name
of ICT to computing will not only improve the
status of the subject but also more accurately
reflect the breadth of content included in the
proposed new programmes of study
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13. I remember being at school and using early
computers. Yes, I was in computer club - and I
loved it. I think we’ve lost some of that sense of
joy and excitement in computing, and have just
become focused on just training kids to use
Windows. We want to bring some of that
excitement back.
September 2013
Elizabeth Truss
Parliamentary
Under Secretary
of State for Education and Childcare
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14. Coding - one of the essential skills of the 21st
century - will now start at age 5. We are aiming to
develop one of the most rigorous computing
curricula in the world, where pupils will learn to
handle detailed, abstract computing processes
and over-11s will learn 2 programming
languages (one of which must be textual).
September 2013
Elizabeth Truss
Parliamentary
Under Secretary
of State for Education and Childcare
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15. Resources?
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16. Code Academy
Turtle Logo
Construct 2
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17. Tynker
Komodo
Alice
Code Monster
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18. Snap
Scratch
Scratch Junior
MIT App Inventor
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19. Daisy the Dinosaur
Hopscotch
BeeBot
Sphero
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20. Raspberry Pi
Servers
Minecraft
Minecraft Pi
RaspberryJuice
Minecraft Pi API
Blockly Minecraft
Minecraft Python Script
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21. Arduino
Shrimp
CodeBender
Coder
for Raspberry Pi
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22. Romotive
Mindstorms
Lollybot
Aibo
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23. MaKey MaKey
Code Spell
Cubelets
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24. MaKey MaKey
ProBots/BeeBots
Scratch
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25. CoderDojo Brisbane
Kids learning to Code
CodeHeroes Brisbane
Mobile Software Developers
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26. CS Unplugged
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27. Project Based Learning
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28. Information Systems?
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29. SQL Fiddle
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30. Systems Thinking
Design Thinking
Computational Thinking
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33. Computational Thinking
"Computational thinking is a
fundamental skill for everyone, not just
for computer scientists. To reading,
writing, and arithmetic, we should add
computational thinking to every child’s
analytical ability."
Jannette Wing
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35. Computational Thinking Skills
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36. Analysis - the process of breaking
the complex into smaller parts to gain
a better understanding of it.
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37. Decomposition
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38. Pattern
recognition
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39. Pattern
generalisation
and abstraction
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40. Algorithm Design
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41. Computational Fairy Tales
The Ant and the Grasshopper: A Fable of Algorithms (Algorithms)
Bullies, Bubble Sort, and Soccer Tickets (Bubble Sort)
Hunting Dragons with Binary Search (Binary Search)
Binary Searching for Cinderella (Binary Search)
Goldilocks and the Two Boolean Bears (Boolean)
The Tortoise, the Hare, and 50000 Ants (Parallel Algorithms)
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42. Computational Fairy Tales
The ant paused for a moment while he thought. "It is the algorithm
that we use," he finally replied.
"Algorithm?" asked the grasshopper.
"A set of steps or instructions for accomplishing a task," explained
the ant. "Like when a carpenter builds a chair, he uses an algorithm
that includes measuring, cutting, smoothing, and hammering."
"What task does your algorithm solve?" asked the grasshopper.
"Does it solve the problem of having too much time during the
summer?" He chuckled out loud at his own joke.
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43. Senior Computing?
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44. Is computer education working?
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45. Griffith University
Dr Jason Zagami
www.zagami.info
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