http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/highlights/archives/419 Highlights are information nuggets that are published at http://NSDL.org. Topics include information about new library resources, as well as stories about discoveries, events, activities and current news. Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:46:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/highlights/archives/419#comment-254 Ari Block Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:26:52 +0000 http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/highlights/archives/419#comment-254 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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