Computational Thinking Education in K-12: Artificial Intelligence Literacy and Physical Computing
Summer 2022MIT Press · 2022
This book offers an overview of computational thinking and its importance in K-12 education. Topics include the rationale for teaching computational thinking, programming as a general problem-solving skill, the "phenomenon-based learning" approach, and the educational implications of the explosion in artificial intelligence research, discussing, among other things, the importance of teaching children to be conscientious designers and consumers of AI.