Relato de experiência sobre uma disciplina de pensamento computacional no primeiro ano do ensino médio

Abstract

Contemporary society demands new skills from students who complete their basic education. In this way, secondary education is required to assume a new role in the development of skills and abilities. The New Secondary School opens space for the teaching of computing disciplines, but there are still few examples of these experiences, so it is important to bring examples of these experiences in basic education. For this reason, this paper sought to describe the impressions of first-year high school students at a public school in the metropolitanregion of Recife regarding the use of unplugged computing in the computational thinking discipline. The subject was taught in the context of the elective curricular component of the new high school in a class with 30 students, 9 students were interviewed and a statistical analysis and a content analysis were carried out. The results showed that the students found the experience positive and that they believe that computational thinking is important for their professional career, the continuity of their studies or the autonomous exercise of citizenship. Finally, it was possible to identify the need to place more emphasis on computational concepts considering the adopted methodology of unplugged computing.