Thinking about computational thinking: Origins of computational thinking in educational computing. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bull, Glen; Garofalo, Joe; Hguyen, N. Rich
• Is Part Of: Journal of digital learning in teacher education. Volume 36:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 6
• Page End: 18
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: Computational thinking -- computer education -- Logo -- Scratch; Teachers -- Training of -- United States -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Educational technology -- Periodicals; Educational technology; Teachers -- Training of -- Data processing; United States; Periodicals; 371.3305
• DOI: 10.1080/21532974.2019.1694381
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2153-2974

Abstract

Abstract: An educational team founded by Seymour Papert at MIT has developed an evolving series of computing environments designed to facilitate computational thinking. Papert outlined the goal of developing educational environments to facilitate the use of computer as a computational object in a seminal publication, Teaching Children Thinking (1970). He subsequently introduced the term Computational Thinking in Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980). The understanding gained through five decades of research provides an important context for contemporary efforts to integrate computational thinking in schools.