ENSINO DE PROGRAMAÇÃO PARA CRIANÇAS E O DESENVOLVIMENTO DO PENSAMENTO COMPUTACIONAL: ALGUMAS REFLEXÕES

One of the great challenges faced by education is to reflect on the effective uses of digital information and communication technologies, in order to provide students with contextualized and meaningful learning. Therefore, the objective of the article is to reflect on the effective uses of digital information and communication technologies in education in these technological times, to achieve other ways of providing education. The teaching of programming can generate stimuli for the development of computational thinking, allowing the child to become a builder of digital artifacts. We emphasize, therefore, that our study is theoretical and reflective, consisting of bibliographical research, with contributions from Castells (1999), Coll and Monereo (2010), Papert (1994), Selwyn (2017), among other scholars. We present, at first, an explanation about the constructionist approach and education, based on the studies of its creator Seymour Papert. In a second moment, we reflect on teaching programming to children to then contextualize the computational thinking and implementation strategies adopted. From this study, we glimpse a horizon of possibilities for the necessary paradigm shift in education.