{"id":2431,"date":"2020-03-20T15:10:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/?page_id=2431"},"modified":"2023-03-10T11:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T11:20:03","slug":"computational-thinking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/teaching\/lcse\/letture\/computational-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Computational thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeannette Wing\u2019s arti\u00adcle gave rise to the \u201cmodern\u201d move\u00adment on com\u00adpu\u00adta\u00adtio\u00adnal thin\u00adking \u2014 you won\u2019t find any\u00adthing pro\u00adfound, but take a quick look at&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">J. Wing. <em>Computational thin\u00adking.<\/em> Communications of the <span class=\"caps\">ACM<\/span>, 49(3):33 (2006) [<\/span><a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~15110-s13\/Wing06-ct.pdf\">Link<\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">] (3&nbsp;pages)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Jeannette Wing. \u201cComputational Thinking Benefits Society\u201d. 40th Anniversary Blog of Social Issues in Computing. (2014) [<a href=\"http:\/\/socialissues.cs.toronto.edu\/index.html\">Link<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A que\u00adstion I will ask you, befo\u00adre you read the other docu\u00admen\u00adts: do you agree with this vision? Do you think an arti\u00adcle like this could start a revo\u00adlu\u00adtion in tea\u00adching com\u00adpu\u00adter scien\u00adce in schools?<\/p>\n<p>This docu\u00adment pro\u00advi\u00addes a com\u00adple\u00adte over\u00adview of the con\u00adcept of com\u00adpu\u00adta\u00adtio\u00adnal thin\u00adking and its various interpretations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National Academy of Sciences. <em>Report of a Workshop on The Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking. <\/em>The National Academy Press (2010) [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nap.edu\/catalog\/12840\/report-of-a-workshop-on-the-scope-and-nature-of-computational-thinking\">Link<\/a>] (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">solo pagi\u00adne 7\u201319, 26\u201331<\/span>) (19 pagine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let\u2019s read a part of this&nbsp;text:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Curzon, Bell, Waite and Dorling. <em>Chapter 17: Computational Thinking<\/em>. In Fincher and Robins (eds.), <em>The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research<\/em>. Cambridge University Press (2019) [<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/12qBdP_d8Mv4yiefWGxd0qM3rvfE0Xjc_\/view?usp=sharing\">Link<\/a>] (only sec\u00adtion 17.2; it seems stran\u00adge to skip 17.1, but I don\u2019t want to over\u00adload you; take a look if you have&nbsp;time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the pre\u00advious les\u00adson, we discus\u00adsed the natu\u00adre of com\u00adpu\u00adter scien\u00adce; in this les\u00adson, we will discuss in more depth what, how, and why com\u00adpu\u00adter scien\u00adce, or com\u00adpu\u00adta\u00adtio\u00adnal thin\u00adking, should be brought into schools.<\/p>\n<p>I will ask you what stri\u00adkes you about the\u00adse tex\u00adts, and what your doub\u00adts, per\u00adple\u00adxi\u00adties, and cri\u00adti\u00adci\u00adsms are of what is proposed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p>In the second part, we will give more spa\u00adce to cri\u00adti\u00adci\u00adsms and doub\u00adts on this topic. So I ask you to&nbsp;read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tedre, Denning. <em>The Long Quest for Computational Thinking<\/em>. In Proc. of the 16th Koli Calling Conference on Computing Education Research, Finland (2016) [<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1X-tvspCCfzyVwekmyhf1UTh3As7LtwvW\/view?usp=sharing\">Link<\/a>] (10 pages, the fir\u00adst repeat con\u00adcep\u00adts alrea\u00addy discussed)<\/li>\n<li>David Hemmendinger. <em>A plea for mode\u00adsty<\/em>. <span class=\"caps\">ACM<\/span> Inroads 1(2):4\u20137 (2010) [<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1eeYRjkzfpqjpU34zULXM-6tlr0Cs4OPF\/view?usp=sharing\">Link<\/a>] (4&nbsp;pages)<\/li>\n<li>Peter J. Denning. <em>Remaining trou\u00adble spo\u00adts with com\u00adpu\u00adta\u00adtio\u00adnal thin\u00adking<\/em>. Commun. <span class=\"caps\">ACM<\/span> 60(6):33\u201339 (2017). [<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/12NpDyEuv_g4WgUQX1d83ZRjZv64p4m_Y\/view?usp=sharing\">Link<\/a>] (7&nbsp;pages)<\/li>\n<li>Curzon, Bell, Waite and Dorling. <em>Chapter 17: Computational Thinking<\/em>. In Fincher and Robins (eds.), <em>The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research<\/em>. Cambridge University Press (2019) [<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/12qBdP_d8Mv4yiefWGxd0qM3rvfE0Xjc_\/view?usp=sharing\">Link<\/a>] (only Sections 17.3, 17.4) (4&nbsp;pages)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will then review the topics we discus\u00adsed in the fir\u00adst les\u00adson with a more cri\u00adti\u00adcal&nbsp;eye:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is \u201ccom\u00adpu\u00adta\u00adtio\u00adnal thin\u00adking\u201d so fundamental?<\/li>\n<li>What is your posi\u00adtion on the cri\u00adti\u00adci\u00adsms discus\u00adsed in the articles?<\/li>\n<li>What are the open issues?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeannette Wing\u2019s arti\u00adcle gave rise to the \u201cmodern\u201d move\u00adment on com\u00adpu\u00adta\u00adtio\u00adnal thin\u00adking \u2014 you won\u2019t find any\u00adthing pro\u00adfound, but take a quick look at&nbsp;it. J. Wing. Computational thin\u00adking. Communications of the <span class=\"caps\">ACM<\/span>, 49(3):33 (2006) [Link] (3&nbsp;pages) Jeannette Wing. \u201cComputational Thinking Benefits Society\u201d. 40th Anniversary Blog of Social Issues in Computing. (2014) [Link] A que\u00adstion&nbsp;I&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2311,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2431","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4743,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2431\/revisions\/4743"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}