Learning goals

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The supported learning goals are identified by mapping the product against the selected reference curriculum and soft skills definitions most relevant for the 21st century.

• Understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions.
• Create and debug simple programs.
• Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs.
• Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content.
• Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school.
• Design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts.
• Use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output.
• Use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs.
• Learn to analyse problems in computational terms
• Make appropriate use of data structures.
Be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.
Create, re-use, revise and re-purpose digital artefacts for a given audience, with attention to trustworthiness, design and usability.
Design and develop modular programs that use procedures or functions.
Design, use and evaluate computational abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and physical systems.
Understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation.
Understand several key algorithms that reflect computational thinking.
Understand simple Boolean logic and some of its uses in circuits and programming.
Undertake creative projects that involve selecting, using, and combining multiple applications, preferably across a range of devices.
Use two or more programming languages, at least one of which is textual, to solve a variety of computational problems.
Develop and apply their analytic, problem-solving, design, and computational thinking skills.
Develop their capability, creativity and knowledge in computer science, digital media and information technology.
Develop plans that describe a program’s sequence of events, goals, and expected outcomes.
Debug (identify and fix) errors in an algorithm or program that includes sequences and simple loops.
Develop programs with sequences and simple loops, to express ideas or address a problem.
Decompose (break down) the steps needed to solve a problem into a precise sequence of instructions.
Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals.
Create programs that use variables to store and modify data.
Decompose (break down) problems into smaller, manageable subproblems to facilitate the program development process.
Test and debug (identify and fix errors) a program or algorithm to ensure it runs as intended.
Describe choices made during program development using code comments, presentations, and demonstrations.
Design and iteratively develop programs that combine control structures, including nested loops and compound conditionals.
Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms
Practising to understand visual concepts and shapes and observe their qualities
Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Practicing logical reasoning, algorithms and programming through making
Understanding technological system operations through making
Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
Practicing persistent working
Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Developing problem solving skills
Practicing to look things from different perspectives
Learning to combine information to find new innovations
Learning to build information on top of previously learned
Practicing to notice causal connections
Realizing the connection between subjects learned in free time and their impact to skills needed at worklife
Learning to plan and organize work processes
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