{"id":510,"date":"2021-04-20T10:01:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T09:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/?p=510"},"modified":"2023-07-04T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:30:03","slug":"introducing-coding-and-computational-thinking-with-code-a-pillar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/2021\/04\/20\/introducing-coding-and-computational-thinking-with-code-a-pillar\/","title":{"rendered":"INTRODUCING CODING AND COMPUTATIONAL THINKING WITH CODE-A-PILLAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<div>\n<p>Dundee practitioner, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/judiregan\">Judi Regan<\/a> has very kindly shared resources for some wonderful Code-a-pillar play activities for early level learners. If you were at SLF 2019, you may have been lucky enough to attend her seminar. Among the resources, there are the &#8216;human&#8217; Code-a-pillar arrows for children to wear. Judi them laminated these and added string for children to wear to remind them which &#8216;direction&#8217; they were during unplugged CS play and also when creating their algorithms with the Code-a-pillar . The children would decide on the directions the Code-a-pillar was to travel, and form a line, holding on to the person in front. The &#8216;head&#8217; would listen for each child in turn to call out their &#8216;direction&#8217; and would then move in that way to make the &#8216;human&#8217; Code-a-pillar travel. This could be extended by planning in advance how to reach a particular object\/area; recreating the actual Code-a-pillar algorithm and moving alongside as it moves or making a plan for moving in a shape, e.g., &#8220;let&#8217;s see if we can get our human Code-a-pillar to move in a square shape?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>We have popped all of Judi\u2019s resources into a folder on OneDrive, <a href=\"https:\/\/glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com\/:f:\/g\/personal\/esewilkinson_glow_gov_uk\/Es3B2gD1s2xGpTu_-1D-G-wBHCZXouSfb88ETrwkjbpPEQ?e=2wjZgn\">you can access and download here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dundee practitioner, Judi Regan has very kindly shared resources for some wonderful Code-a-pillar play activities for early level learners. If you were at SLF 2019, you may have been lucky enough to attend her seminar. Among the resources, there are the &#8216;human&#8217; Code-a-pillar arrows for children to wear. Judi them laminated these and added string &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61927,"featured_media":846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,3,16,4],"tags":[18,65,66],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coding","category-elc","category-from-our-community","category-primary","tag-community","tag-communityelc","tag-communityprimary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/computingscience\/uploads\/sites\/9355\/2021\/04\/14152801\/7-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}