It's high time for students to move beyond an hour of coding exercises and learn computational thinking. That's the message of a new report from Digital Promise that examines what's important to know ...

Anyone who says you can’t apply computational thinking and digital learning strategies to strengthen students’ writing skills is wrong. To the contrary, this innovative learning style helps students ...

In my last EdSurge article, “Computer Science Goes Beyond Coding,” I wrote about the difference between coding and computer science, to help us understand what we mean by phrases like “Teach kids to ...

The way we approach problems in the workplace has changed drastically because of technology. Therefore, it is imperative that we set students up for future success by teaching relevant skills and ...

We often imagine computational thinking as an esoteric skill; something for scientists and engineers, and not for the rest of us. As content director of the new PBS Kids series Work It Out Wombats!, ...

The Next Generation Science Standards call for science teachers to bring more “computational thinking” into middle school science. Two pilot projects at the American Educational Research Association ...

Boost student engagement through the core concepts of computational thinking: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithmic thinking. In this session, you’ll learn how to integrate ...

Want to teach your students how to save whales using Computational Thinking? Researchers and educators have teamed up to share powerful case studies for the classroom Sarah Glassman, PhD & Sarah ...

In paraphrasing Jeannette M. Wing’s definition of computational thinking, it deals with providing solutions to complex problems, creating effective systems, and having a good understanding of how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of learning, work and human development. Schools around the world teach calculation. But computers do ...

Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft today announced the establishment of the Microsoft Carnegie Mellon Center for Computational Thinking. Started with a three-year, $1.5 million grant from ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A May 2024 Reuters Institute and University of Oxford survey, which included more than ...