Originally, Jeannette sold Computational Thinking as "If you learn CT, you learn things that you can apply in your everyday life." I don't think many of us believe that anymore.
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But why do we say "CT" instead of computation, or coding, or programming, or even computer science? Is the real reason that people are afraid of the word "programming," and are still unsure that we can teach programming to everyone?
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In the 2000s, research showed that “coding” or “programming” scared away groups who were underrepresented in CS. I hope the CSEd community celebrates that we’re collectively beating this challenge. In fact, the top student complaint I hear about CSP or ECS is “not enough coding”
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@yadavaman it’s easier to “sell” CT into existing curriculum frameworks, and that’s what many countries are doing (eg Japan). But a problem of teaching CS only as a tool to learn math or science is you teach CT but lose much of the creativity and fun. -
The beauty of computer science is it is analytic AND creative; it is foundational AND vocational. imho teaching it as only one without the other misses the full picture.
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I hear this complaint about CSP as well but I wonder if it is because of misperceptions about what CS is really all about.
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That’s entirely possible. Regardless, “fear of coding” is less of a factor each year. Today’s HS students have increasingly tried block-based coding while young, many want to graduate to something more mature.
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