Video games to solve mathematical problems, animations on the biology of the human body, robot prototypes that collect rainwater for use during droughts.
These are all examples of technological products that were not designed by engineers but by school children acquiring new skills through information technology.
In the world, computational thinking is gaining ground in education from the earliest stages of student training, and Uruguay is no exception.
How important are programming and computer science in education? How does our country stand? What steps need to be taken to extend teaching in these areas?
In a new edition of La Mesa TIC we talked about these issues with Wilson Netto, president of the Central Board of ANEP since 2012, graduated from the Instituto de Profesores Artigas as a Physics Teacher; Isabel Varela, early education teacher, Master in Psychopedagogical Intervention and High Dedication Professor of the Department of Education of the Catholic University of Uruguay; Sylvia Da Rosa, Computer Engineer, PhD in Computer Science from the Program for the Development of Basic Sciences (PEDECIBA), professor at the Institute of Computer Science of the Faculty of Engineering of the UdelaR; and Leonardo Loureiro, president of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology, Systems Engineer.
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