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Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions. Students:
  • formulate problem definitions suited for technology-assisted methods such as data analysis, abstract models and algorithmic thinking in exploring and finding solutions.
  • collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
  • break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.
  • understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.
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A thought I wish to share with you. (2:10)
Experience 6 focuses on helping our students solve problems by collecting, analyzing, and using data to break a problem into smaller component parts, and come up with a solution. Algorithmic thinking is discussed. Then we'll participate in a group discussion around what we've covered this week.

We're going to introduce you to podcasts. There are millions of audio and video podcasts you can use in your classroom. We'll share resources where you can search for and find them.

​For this week's skill, our goal is to help you become fluent with working with audio. We'll introduce you to Audacity, a powerful, free multitrack audio recorder and editing program, and have you use it to create an audio podcast. We'll then share our podcasts with the rest of the class in the Experience 6 assignment and discussion - Working with Audio - Podcasts.
  1. Work through sections 6A, 6B, 6C, and 6D. Then discuss with your group your thoughts and take-aways about what you've learned, and the resources shared with you.
  2. Discover podcasts that you can use in your own classroom.
  3. Create your own podcast and share it with the class!
Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions. Students:
  • Section 6A: formulate problem definitions suited for technology-assisted methods such as data analysis, abstract models and algorithmic thinking in exploring and finding solutions.
  • Section 6B: collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Section 6C: break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.
  • Section 6D: understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.
  • Section 6E: Skill: Working with audio (Audacity)
You have two assignments this week.  One is to create an audio podcast in Audacity and save it as an MP3 audio file (complete directions are given in section 6E). The other is to have a group discussion about what we've learned in experience 6.

Use Module "Week 6 - Students become computational thinkers - Audio Podcast" in Canvas! Be sure to look through the assigned discussions and their scoring rubrics!
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