Computational Thinking for All Subject Areas

The Commonwealth has partnered the organization Project Tomorrow to bring rigorous learning for the Science and Engineering Practice Using mathematics and Computational Thinking. However, this logical thinking is applicable to math, ELA and the humanities. “Computational Thinking is a problem-solving process that enables students to think, learn and create to solve problems. The four pillars at the heart of our work involving Computational Thinking are:
- decomposition – breaking down into parts 
- pattern recognition – seeing and using similarities 
- abstraction – removing unnecessary details 
- algorithm design - making steps and rules to solve problems 
These pillars enable us to think logically about how to organize data and breakdown the steps to solving a problem, transfer our thinking processes to a wider variety of problems, analyze key components of complex problems and generate a list of steps used to solve a problem.” 
The purpose of Computational Thinking Projects 
- To build computational thinking confidence, competency, and capacity within elementary school teachers. 
- To develop student skills and self-efficacy with computational thinking. 
- To improve student academic outcomes. 
- To validate a new computational thinking professional learning model that is replicable and sustainable across a variety of schools and communities.  
Project Tomorrow also has a fully supportive program to monitor educators growth in understanding and teaching computational thinking in whichever subject area they teach.