COMPUTATIONAL THINKING, STEM EDUCATION AND INFORMATICS EDUCATION: PENDING ISSUES
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This paper examines the rise of the phrase Computational Thinking (CT) in the field of education, from the perspective of the computational revolutions of the last 20 years and their impact on education. Paying special attention to said context, the paper challenges educational initiatives for basic CT as the solution for the educational problems of today and sets guidelines for the didactic approach for CT grounded on the theoretical foundations of the didactics of programming. The purpose of the paper is to contribute to the development of a didactic model for computational science from the discipline of Informatics Education.
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