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.

• Create programs that use variables to store and modify data.
• Encouraging positive attitude towards working life
• Understand several key algorithms that reflect computational thinking.
• Understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation.
• Design and develop modular programs that use procedures or functions.
• Use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs.
• Use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output.
• Design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts.
• Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content.
• Can analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems.
Can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation.
Use and adapt classic algorithms to solve computational problems.
Document design decisions using text, graphics, presentations, and/or demonstrations in the development of complex programs.
Use lists to simplify solutions, generalizing computational problems instead of repeatedly using simple variables.
Create prototypes that use algorithms to solve computational problems by leveraging prior student knowledge and personal interests.
Incorporate existing code, media, and libraries into original programs, and give attribution.
Decompose problems and subproblems into parts to facilitate the design, implementation, and review of programs.
Design and iteratively develop programs that combine control structures, including nested loops and compound conditionals.
Create clearly named variables that represent different data types and perform operations on their values.
Document programs in order to make them easier to follow, test, and debug.
Describe choices made during program development using code comments, presentations, and demonstrations.
Take on varying roles, with teacher guidance, when collaborating with peers during the design, implementation, and review stages of program development.
Test and debug (identify and fix errors) a program or algorithm to ensure it runs as intended.
Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs.
Create and debug simple programs.
Understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions.
Modify, remix, or incorporate portions of an existing program into one's own work, to develop something new or add more advanced features.
Decompose (break down) problems into smaller, manageable subproblems to facilitate the program development process.
Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals.
Learning to notice causal connections
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
Practicing to improvise
Practicing creative thinking
Creating requirements for creative thinking
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
Practicing persistent working
Practicing to notice causal connections
Developing problem solving skills
Using technology to express one’s emotions and experiences
Practicing logical reasoning, algorithms and programming through making
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Understanding technological system operations through making
Learning to build information on top of previously learned
Practicing to notice causal connections
Practicing decision making
Practicing persistent working
Using technology to express one’s emotions and experiences
Using technology as a part of explorative process
Practicing keyboard skills and touch typing
Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms
Developing problem solving skills
Create prototypes that use algorithms to solve computational problems by leveraging prior student knowledge and personal interests.
Use lists to simplify solutions, generalizing computational problems instead of repeatedly using simple variables.
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.
Develop plans that describe a program’s sequence of events, goals, and expected outcomes.
Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals.
Debug (identify and fix) errors in an algorithm or program that includes sequences and simple loops.
Model daily processes by creating and following algorithms (sets of step-by-step instructions) to complete tasks.
Model the way programs store and manipulate data by using numbers or other symbols to represent information.
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 clearly named variables that represent different data types and perform operations on their values.
Create and debug simple programs.
Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs.
Understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions.
Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school.
Design and develop modular programs that use procedures or functions.
Develop their capability, creativity and knowledge in computer science, digital media and information technology.
Practicing to use arts as a way to express
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
Use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs.
Decompose problems and subproblems into parts to facilitate the design, implementation, and review of programs.
Create programs that use variables to store and modify data.
Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life
Create procedures with parameters to organize code and make it easier to reuse.
Understanding technological system operations through making
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Practicing logical reasoning, algorithms and programming through making
Developing problem solving skills
Practising visual recognition
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
Practicing creative thinking
Creating requirements for creative thinking
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
Practicing to look things from different perspectives
Practicing to notice causal connections
Learning to notice causal connections
Using technology as a part of explorative process
Using technology to express one’s emotions and experiences
Using technology for interaction and collaboration
Practicing logical reasoning, algorithms and programming through making
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Understanding technological system operations through making
Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals.
Demonstrate code reuse by creating programming solutions using libraries and APIs.
Model the way programs store and manipulate data by using numbers or other symbols to represent information.
Model daily processes by creating and following algorithms (sets of step-by-step instructions) to complete tasks.
Using correct terminology, describe steps taken and choices made during the iterative process of program development.
Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life
Learning to combine information to find new innovations
Encouraging to build new information and visions
Learning to build information on top of previously learned
Practicing to notice causal connections
Understand how data of various types can be represented and manipulated digitally, in the form of binary digits.
Use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs.
Use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output.
Design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts.
Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content.
Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs.
Create and debug simple programs.
Understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions.
Can evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems.
Are responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.
Can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation.
Decompose (break down) problems into smaller, manageable subproblems to facilitate the program development process.
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