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Husband & Father. International Educator. Technologist. Leader. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท #ISBlearning
Jan 9, 2022 โ€ข 14 tweets โ€ข 7 min read
1/ Recently a new game called #Wordle from @powerlanguish went viral.

Wordle challenges you to find a random word in 6 tries.

Its fun, simple and addictive. More importantly, it is a good chance for us to teach students about #ComputationalThinking (CT).

๐Ÿ•ฐ for a ๐Ÿงต: 2/ CT s a problem solving framework; a systematic way of approaching a problem that can be used in any classroom and with any age of learners.

CT is broken into 4 distinct parts:

- Decomposition ๐Ÿงฉ
- Pattern Recognition โ ป
- Abstraction ๐ŸงŠ > โฌœ๏ธ
- Algorithm ๐Ÿ“