Implicação dos pilares do pensamento computacional na resolução de problemas na escola.

Abstract

Computing fast development affects the way society acts, organizes and evolves. Considering this, it is essential that school prepares students not only for the use of computing devices, but also to understand the changes they cause in life in society, and especially to, in addition to using them, produce what makes them useful: hardware and software. Computing involves more than the use and architecture of machines, it provides the means for people to understand, organize, and structure their thinking for problem solving. The field that enables the understanding and development of these skills is called Computational Thinking. Considering the various aspects of this process, this study aims to understand and explain how the pillars of Computational Thinking – analysis, abstraction and automation – are evidenced in problem solving in school. In order to follow and understand the strategies and the pillars used by students during problem solving, this investigation implicated in a qualitative bibliographic and exploratory research, which involved a semi-structured interview, a proposition of two plugged and three unplugged problems to four students from elementary education and the monitoring of actions performed by the participants, totaling six meetings. The procedures developed and the questions asked pointed out that students highlight the pillars of Computational Thinking when they learn to think the logical problems solving of school and daily life activities.