The Intentional Integration of Computational Thinking
I was recently reading the May/June 2021 issue of \u201cScience Scope\u201d a publication of the National Science Teaching Association.\xa0\xa0In this issue, I read the section \u201cInterdisciplinary Ideas\u201d written by Raja Ridgway.\xa0\xa0Raja wrote an article entitled \u201cThe Intentional Integration of Computational Thinking.\u201d
Computational Thinking Practices:
- Decomposition\xa0\u2014 Breaking down into components.
- Pattern Matching\xa0\u2014 Finding similarities between components.
- Abstraction\xa0\u2014 The process of reducing complexity by focusing on the main idea.\xa0\xa0By hiding details irrelevant to the question at hand and bringing together related and useful details, abstraction reduces complexity and allows one to focus on the problem.
- Algorithms\xa0\u2014 A step-by-step process to complete a task.