Marcus and I heard a different talk. I liked very much what Wing had
to say about computational thinking. She didn't say this must
replace all other kinds of thinking, nor did she say computing is the
answer to everything. She seemed to me to offer a set of tools,
mental and metal, that can address a bunch of problems we've always
thought were intractable. Will there be stupid applications? Not
for the first time in human history.
On Jul 12, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
peter wrote:
So we have computational thinking CT, What fears that arises to
develop into PCCT "Politically Correct CT" or the only right way to
think " CTCT Correct Thinking CT ( Guided by suitably well minded
intelligentsia just like CCCP ) especially targeting young
manipulatable minds of children in education. What consideration that
we are already ignoring reality of human thought and type with
indicators such as MBTI creating a vision of a cuddly universal world
through the distorted lens of computer hardware and APIs ( Now MBTICT
I could handle especially how it sounds ) .
If an interface (API) is bad, it's like jumping through the hoops of a
stupid bureaucrat and accomplishing nothing. But the bureaucrat has
the force of government on his side, so people more or less conform.
People don't need to be taught to conform to such constraints, they
need
encouragement to demand better. If an API is good, and helps solve a
tricky problem, and provides abstraction, then it's not fair to
call it
a distorted lens. Computational thinking is not just the uncritical
memorization of proprietary APIs, rather it's having some sense of
when
those vendors are selling you something worth having..
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