Computational Thinking is… not so easy to define as it turns out. \u00a0What the heck is it? \u00a0Here’s my first pass at my own personal working definition.<\/p>\n
Computational Thinking is the effective application of skills and knowledge in contemporary Data, Information and Computer Sciences in problem solving within a variety of domains, using\u00a0computation by information processing agents (both human and machine).<\/p>\n
Not completely satisfied with my first attempt, I walked away for about six weeks, and read more deeply on Computational Thinking. \u00a0Without revisiting the first attempt, I once again attempted to construct a verbal definition of computational thinking that could serve as my explicit mental model, or Object to think with,<\/em>\u00a0(Papert, 1980).<\/p>\n Computational thinking, simply thinking which involves a component of computation…<\/p>\n More thoroughly,\u00a0Computational Thinking is a collection of previously defined higher order skills (Inductive and Deductive Logical Thinking, Mathematical Thinking, Critical Thinking, ) and domain specific Computer Science (CS) knowledge, the affordances of which may be leveraged to accurately analyze, model, predict and provide solutions to complex issues.<\/p>\n I think I’m getting closer, but will continue to update my thoughts as they develop!<\/p>\n What’s your preferred definition?<\/p>\n Mike<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Computational Thinking is… not so easy to define as it turns out. \u00a0What the heck is it? \u00a0Here’s my first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[14],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.instructionaldesignerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.instructionaldesignerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.instructionaldesignerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.instructionaldesignerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.instructionaldesignerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.instructionaldesignerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"http:\/\/www.instructionaldesignerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.instructionaldesignerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.instructionaldesignerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.instructionaldesignerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}