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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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”
And I agree w/ @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.
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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 agree! At the elementary level, I see CT as just the first step in scaffolding teachers to bring CS into their classrooms.
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