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Jeannette M. Wing
Computational thinking will influence everyone in every field of endeavour. This vision poses a new educational challenge for our society, especially for our children. In thinking about computing, we need to be attuned to the three drivers of our field: science, technology and society. Accelerating technological…
Shih-Yeh Chen, Ying-Hsun Lai, Yu-Shan Lin
In this study, the head-mounted virtual reality (VR) technology is adpoted for computational thinking teaching in the AIoT Maker course teaching. The earthquake relief situation is designed in the VR in the course scenario, because in the context of situational thinking, pre-emptive training in the face of emergency…
Katibe Gizem Yığ, Ayşe Gökçe-Ulutaş, Neşe Sevim-Çırak
Teachers are expected to integrate technology effectively into instruction, which requires not only strong digital literacy but also well-developed computational thinking skills. In this context, this study examined the extent to which pre-service teachers’ computational thinking skills were predicted by demographic…
Ying-Hsun Lai
Introduction As education systems worldwide begin to accept and implement computational thinking, the educators of both elementary and higher education are considering the cultivation of students’ computational thinking abilities. It is hoped that students effectively analyze and deconstruct all kinds of complex issues…
Louka Konstantina, Papadakis Stamatios
A plethora of programming platforms purports to teach preschool-aged children computational thinking (CT) and coding skills. However, the empirical evidence to support their effectiveness is still in its early stages. A three-week didactic intervention using ScratchJr was conducted to investigate its effectiveness in…
Gabor Aranyi, Kristof Kovacs, Ferenc Kemény, Orsolya Pachner + 3 more
'Balázs Klein' 'Eszter P. Remete' 'Liliana G. Ciobanu'] Computational thinking (CT) is a set of problem-solving skills with high relevance in education and work contexts. The present paper explores the role of key cognitive factors underlying CT performance in non-programming university students. We collected data from…
Michael Gr. Voskoglou, Sheryl Buckley
Computational thinking is a new problem solving method named for its extensive use of computer science techniques. It synthesizes critical thinking and existing knowledge and applies them to solve complex technological problems. The term was coined by J. Wing [1], but the relationship between computational and critical…
Nagalaxmy Markandan, Kamisah Osman, Lilia Halim
Education digitization highly enthuses learners for deeper learning and developing thought processes in formulating problems and their solutions effectively in their real-life circumstances. Implementing computational thinking skills through programming in Malaysian primary and secondary school STEM curriculum create…
Javier Bilbao, Eugenio Bravo, Olatz García, Carolina Rebollar
| | International Journal on | | | ISSN 2077-3528 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | | "Technical and Physical Problems of Engineering" | | | IJTPE Journal | | | | (IJTPE) | | www.iotpe.com | | | Published by International Organization of IOTPE | | | ijtpe@iotpe.com | | March 2024 | Issue 58 | Volume 16 | Number 1 |…
Leila Ribeiro, Luciana Foss, Simone André da Costa Cavalheiro
O objetivo deste artigo é esclarecer o significado de Pensamento Computacional. Diferencia-se o raciocínio lógico do computacional e discute-se a importância do Pensamento Computacional na resolução de problemas. Os três pilares do Pensamento Computacional - Abstração, Automação e Análise - são delineados…
Sabah Al‐Fedaghi, Ali Abdullah
—This paper examines conceptual models and their application to computational thinking. Computational thinking is a fundamental skill for everybody, not just for computer scientists. It has been promoted as skills that are as fundamental for all as numeracy and literacy. According to authorities in the field, the best…
Daniel P. Weller, Theodore E. Bott, Marcos D. Caballero, Paul W. Irving
'Paul W. Irving'] Computational thinking has been a recent focus of education research within the sciences. However, there is a dearth of scholarly literature on how best to teach and to assess this topic, especially in disciplinary science courses. Physics classes with computation integrated into the curriculum are a…
James Lockwood, Aidan Mooney
Computational Thinking (CT) has been described as an essential skill which everyone should learn and can therefore include in their skill set. Seymour Papert [1] is credited as concretising Computational Thinking in 1980 but since Wing [2] popularised the term in 2006 and brought it to the international community's…
Timothée Poisot, Richard Labrie, Erin Larson, Anastasia Rahlin
Computational thinking is the integration of algorithms, software, and data, to solve general questions in a field. Computation ecology has the potential to transform the way ecologists think about the integration of data and models. As the practice is gaining prominence as a way to conduct ecological research, it is…
Anna A. Ivanova, Shashank Srikant, Yotaro Sueoka, Hope H. Kean + 4 more
Computer programming is a novel cognitive tool that has transformed modern society. What cognitive and neural mechanisms support this skill? Here, we used fMRI to investigate two candidate brain systems: the multiple demand (MD) system, typically recruited during math, logic, problem solving, and executive tasks, and…
Juan P. Franco, Karlo Doroc, Nitin Yadav, Peter Bossaerts + 1 more
The survival of human organisms depends on our ability to solve complex tasks in the face of limited cognitive resources. However, little is known about the factors that drive the complexity of those tasks. Here, building on insights from computational complexity theory, we quantify the computational hardness of…
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Step-by-step thinking is essential in all domains of chemical sciences and engineering. While machine learning tools are broadly used, algorithms that automate reasoning are far less common. We elaborate on seven categories of human reasoning activities and connect each to applications in chemical science and…
Andrew McCluskey, Miguel Rivera, Antonia Mey
The role of computing in the chemical sciences is changing. Previously the domain of the theoretical or computational chemist, advanced digital skills, including data analysis and simulation, are becoming extremely relevant to all. Here, we discuss the importance of integrating computing and digital skills into an…
Juan Pablo Franco, Nitin Yadav, Peter Bossaerts, Carsten Murawski
Life presents us with decisions of varying degrees of difficulty. Many of them are NP-hard, that is, they are computationally intractable. Two important questions arise: which properties of decisions drive extreme computational hardness and what are the effects of these properties on human-decision making? Here, we…
Oliver Lee, Malte Gather, Eli Zysman-Colman
We describe a new tool for the efficient management of computational chemistry. Digichem is a program that automates and simplifies nearly the entire computational pipeline, including large-scale batch submission of calculations, analysis and results parsing, the generation of 3D density plots and 2D graphs of…
Yuanqi Du, Chenru Duan, Andres Bran, Anna Sotnikova + 5 more
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated outstanding capabilities in general problem-solving and been shown to improve productivity in certain domains. Thanks to their flexibility, recent work has leveraged them for diverse scientific applications, ranging from predictive modeling, scientific Q&A, and even as…
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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) structure determination is an important problem in education, industry, and research. Solving NMR spectra requires expert knowledge, critical thinking, and careful evaluation of multiple features of spectral data. This study explores the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) for…
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In philosophy and science, a first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. Ancient Greek philosophy Aristotle defined the first principle as “the first basis from which a thing is known.” First principles thinking (or reasoning from first…
Preston P. Thakral, Kevin P. Madore, Ruth E. Gomez, Aleea L. Devitt
The ability to generate novel creative ideas (divergent thinking) is closely linked with our ability to imagine novel future events (episodic simulation). Here, we employed an individual differences approach to examine whether divergent thinking and episodic simulation are differentially associated with episodic and…