Complex thinking to computational thinking: contemporary challenges in education

Abstract

One of the problems of education today is that it continues to favoring the teaching of contents instead applying skills and cognitive abilities that allow a development of the thought of the students. Besides a traditional education, it is considered that a reflection of the complex thought can contribute to a better understanding of a contemporary reality. Education today has as a challenge the explanation and understanding, from a hermeneutic perspective, of the new complexities of reality to the occurrence and the everyday use of the internet, ICTS web 2.0 and
social networks. For this reason, the proposal of this article is that there is a relationship between complex thinking and computational thinking that affects an improvement of the quality of education. This research focuses on a reflection on education from the conception of uncertainty and complexity. It refer to the relationship between a complex thought and a computational thinking from connectivism and the challenges of a society 3.0 in which ICT is incorporated into the daily life of human beings. In the other hand, a definition of computational thinking will put us on this new way of thinking from real problems through a new computational logic to achieve solutions. The computational thinking challenges the contemporary education to incorporate this new approach to the solution of problems, building systems and prospective understanding of the
relationship between science, technology and society 3.0.