Use of Computer Technology in Education

• Course Management Systems • Learning Management Systems• Classroom Teaching Technology• Modeling and Simulation

• and• Computational Thinking

Computational Thinking is integrating human thinking with

computer capabilities

Learning how computer Scientists solve problems can help all of us

solve complicated problems

Some Computational Thinking ideas• Recursion

• Reduction and Transformation

• Dealing with Scale

Recursion

Source: wikipedia

Count the number of nodes in a large tree

Move disks from one peg to another

Rules: Only one disk can be moved at a time A larger disk cannot be placed on the top of a smaller disk

Reduction

Examples• Given 63 cents what is the minimum number

of coins to give change?• Given n cities how