Tesis y Tesistas 2020 - Postgrado - Fac. de Informática - UNLP

MAESTRÍA
TECNOLOGÍA INFORMÁTICA
APLICADA EN EDUCACIÓN
Mg. Noelia Soledad Gomez
e-mail
sgomez@info.unlp.edu.ar
Director
Lic. Francisco Javier Díaz
Codirector
Dra. Magalí Catino
Thesis defense date
September 29, 2020
SEDICI
http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/111306
Computational Thinking, innovation
and interdisciplinary perspectives
in educational settings
Keywords: Technologies; Computational Thinking; education; digital skills; communication/education.
Motivation
My academic and professional training, places me in the
question about the senses that are socially constructed and
legitimized, in this case, to coin computational thinking as
an object of study within the framework of educational
policies. My experience as part of the extension projects of
the Faculty of Informatics on education and programming
promoted my interest in teaching problems in a
disciplinary field that is not my own. The questions arising
from concrete actions such as the design of the study
plan of the Specialization in Computer Science Didactics,
allowed me to unfold new areas of interest regarding the
integration of technologies in educational environments,
among them how to teach to think computationally?
The challenge of working in an interdisciplinary way
promotes the development of contributions for two
disciplinary fields that address the issue of information
and communication technologies (ICT) and their impact
in the social sphere, but that do not dialogue with each
other: the Sciences of the Computing and Communication
Sciences. Currently from both fields there are developments
and research on ICT, but the articulation between these
two disciplinary worlds is not frequent. In this sense,
the contribution that may result from this study aims to
contribute to this articulation, to the use of communication
categories for the analysis of computer processes in
educational settings. As a consequence of this integration,
the field of communication / education will facilitate the
integration of pedagogical categories that in this thesis
strengthen the analysis of educational practices and that
serve as a precedent for the identification of problems
between Computer Science and Education.
The rise of content in computer science subjects, the
scenario of cultural transformations and the debate on
digital education, make it possible to configure this topic
and its approach from an interdisciplinary perspective.
This work will allow me, not only to strengthen myself
on the subject, but it will also be an input for the
contributions that, as a collaborator, I can make in my
workspaces. My participation as a research fellow in the
Research Laboratory in New Information Technologies
(LINTI) and in the research project Internet of the Future:
Inclusive, Innovative and Sustainable Digital Cities, IoT,
Cybersecurity, Learning Spaces of the Future, as well as
the activities teaching in the subject Pedagogy and my
participation in the Directorate of Educational Technology
of the Province of Buenos Aires, make my interest in the
subject a daily reality.
Thesis contributions
The main objective of this research work was to describe and
systematize the configuration of computational thinking,
its incidence and validity in the educational field from the
comparison of public policies, from an interdisciplinary
approach. Based on the research work carried out, the
conclusions are detailed according to the proposed topics:
• A systematic review was developed on the state of the art
in relation to computational thinking and its development
in educational settings. From the reconstruction of the
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