Tech Tools For Recognizing Patterns
After visualizing and verbalizing problems, students can now proceed to the second stage of computational thinking : recognizing patterns, detecting trends and finding regularities in data. They can use graphic organizers to identify relationships between objects, connect and classify information and recognize patterns. Here are some tools and websites where you can find free printable graphic organizers: Graphic Organizers by Scholastic Graphic Organizers by Education Place Free Graphic Organizers by edhelper Student Handouts On this site you can find a very easy-to-use Venn Diagram Maker . Gliffy and Lucidchart that I mentioned in my post on verbal thinking can also be used to create Venn diagrams to indicate which elements are common and which are unique in a list of things. On ReadWriteThink there are a lot of useful graphic organizers, such as Compare and contrast Connection stem and Connection Web for making connections, e.g. in a text KWL Creat...