http://jodischneider.com/blog/2008/12/13/computational-thinking-quoting-jeannette-wing/ reading, technology, stray thoughts Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:24:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://jodischneider.com/blog/2008/12/13/computational-thinking-quoting-jeannette-wing/comment-page-1/#comment-1313 Ari Block Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:31:50 +0000 http://jodischneider.com/blog/?p=240#comment-1313 I agree Computational Thinking is very important and can be a very important tool no mater what area you are in. i am wondering why there are no tools to support computational thinking. if we relay want to push this idea i think its more then teaching a powerful way to think but also giving them the power to do something with this thinking method. its like standards committees, whats better defining a standard if how to do something or just providing a tool to do it by the standard very easily. as a programmer i don't want to implement long standards but i don't care about taking a ready module with a simple interface that will implement the standard. should we be educating or creating tool for computational thinking ? I agree Computational Thinking is very important and can be a very important tool no mater what area you are in. i am wondering why there are no tools to support computational thinking. if we relay want to push this idea i think its more then teaching a powerful way to think but also giving them the power to do something with this thinking method. its like standards committees, whats better defining a standard if how to do something or just providing a tool to do it by the standard very easily. as a programmer i don’t want to implement long standards but i don’t care about taking a ready module with a simple interface that will implement the standard. should we be educating or creating tool for computational thinking ?

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