What are the 4 R's Essential to 21st Century Learning? | HASTAC - 0 views
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the beauty of teaching even the youngest kids algorithms and algorithmic or procedural thinking is that it gives them the same tool of agency and production that writing and even reading gave to industrial age learners who, for the first time in history, had access to cheap books and other forms of print.
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Interestingly, unlike math, which can often be difficult to teach in all of its abstraction, algorithms do stuff. algorithms are operational. You show kids how to use a program like Scratch or Hackasaurus and, very soon, they can actually manipulate, create, and do, in their very own and special way.