ROZWIJANIE MYŚLENIA KOMPUTACYJNEGO U DZIECI WCZESNEJ EDUKACJI

Abstract

The pervasiveness of digital technologies in daily life is fundamentally changing the way individuals access and elaborate knowledge. Individuals have to process complex information, think systematically and take decisions weighting different forms of data. More fundamentally, in order to seize the new opportunities that digital technologies are opening in many areas, individuals
have to develop the right set of skills to use these technologies effectively. In addition to literacy and fluency with IT, intellectual abilities (i.e. computational thinking), are needed. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the opportunities for developing computational thinking in the youngest learners. It includes an overview of the basic terms related to the issue of computational thinking and an outline of the possibilities of developing this thinking at the initial stage of education.