Today’s lecture was highly informative; prior to the lesson I had not considered the benefits of encouraging children to develop computational thinking. Computational thinking is important because it empowers children with an understanding of the importance of planning and thinking through actions – this was modelled rather nicely by the activity that demanded we write a set of instructions as to how to make a jam sandwich, and then put them into practice as a classmate was required to be a ‘robot’ and carry out the instructions we had created. This activity would introduce the children to the concept of ‘algorithms’ and the importance of specificity in our algorithms to avoid ambiguity. The ability to think through a sequence of actions and be precise, efficient and unambiguous in your instructions is a skill that children would develop through their ICT lessons but that would equip them to be better learners in other subjects and in their daily life.