THE IMPORTANCE OF COMPUTATIONAL THINKING IN EDUCATION TODAY. REFLECTION AND RESEARCH: THOUGHT, INTELLIGENCE AND COMPETENCY

Riccardo Mancini

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Since the year 2006, when Wing introduced the term “computational thinking” to define the need to disseminate the cognitive style of computer science, it has become a topic of educational debates, and more.

 Wing is also attributed with having represented a first definition, albeit located and oriented within and IT paradigm. What we mean by “computational thinking” is the “set of mental processes used to formulate problems and their solutions in such a way that the description of the solutions is actually executable by an agent that processes information” (2006); processes which possess a high educational potential which will necessarily result in making a series of theoretical and practical considerations and speculations  

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education, digital culture, media education, computational thinking, pedagogy

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