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Examining Computational Thinking in the Field

Mon, April 16, 8:15 to 9:45am, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor: Third Level, North Junior Ballroom C

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Promoting digital literacy has been an important goal for educators in the internet age. But recently there is growing interest that one aspect of digital literacy - computational thinking - is a skill that has implications far beyond computers use (Wing, 2006). Computational thinking is the use of the type of algorithmic processes common in computer programing, but useful in solving many everyday problems. As the new field of computational thinking emerges, we need to develop tools to observe and assess it. This session presents five papers on identifying and studying computational thinking in diverse situations. Together these papers provide insight into the scope and complexity of computational thinking as well as the methodologies for assessing it.

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