Spatial Thinking as a Path Towards Computational Thinking

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Author(s): Derek Allen Ham (North Carolina State University, USA)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 20
Source title: Teaching Computational Thinking in Primary Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Huseyin Ozcinar (Pamukkale University, Turkey), Gary Wong (University of Hong Kong, China)and H. Tugba Ozturk (Ankara University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3200-2.ch006

Keywords: Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Education / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education

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Considering what we know about computational thinking, how much of this cognitive domain hangs on one's ability to think spatially? Is spatial thinking a hidden foundational property for developing strong computational thinking skills? If coding is the new literacy for 21st century thinking, educators must diversify their methodology of instruction. Mathematics must not be the only pathway to computational thinking, computer science, and coding. This book chapter opens up new insight into spatial reasoning, showing it as a new viable method to give students the computational thinking skills necessary to thrive in STEM fields. Finally, this chapter presents concepts found in shape grammars as a methodology used to teach students how to approach art and design computationally. With shape, grammars we find computational thinking at the center of creative activities.

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