1 – 1 Creation

Non-computer session

In this session, you will get into your design journals and learn the vocabulary you need to discuss the concepts of computational creation.

Goals

· You and your group members can compare the concepts of design and create

· You and your group members can construct a definition of computational creation

Objectives

· The teacher will brief you on the class structure

· You and your group members will engage in a discourse on computational design

· You will begin developing your design journals

Getting Started

· What are the different ways that you interact with computers?

· How many of those ways involve you being creative with computers?

· What kind of projects do you think we will create in Scratch?

Vocabulary

· Collaboration – working together

· Design – building and modifying in the mind

· Create – building out in the world

· Programming – process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable program

· Computation – any type of calculation or use of computing technology in information processing

· Computational creation – using imagination and help from others to design calculations using computing technology to build programs with the end user in mind

Instructions

1. Write your name on the cover of your design journal

2. Write down the vocabulary words and try to define them

a. Discuss the vocabulary with the instructor and your friends

3. Answer the Getting Started questions

a. Discuss your answers with the instructor and your friends

4. Answer the Wrap-up Questions

a. Discuss your answers with the instructor and your friends

Feeling stuck? Try this…

· Ask your friends what they are writing down

· Ask the instructor to give you some hints

Wrap-up Questions

· Now that you know more about computational creation – write a paragraph that describes a cool project you would like to create in this class

Measurement

· Students explained class structure

· Students participated in the computational creation discussions

· Students completed the Getting Started questions, vocabulary, and Wrap-up Questions in their design journals