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8 - Computational Thinking and No-Boundary Thinking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2023

By
Joan Peckham
Edited by
Xiuzhen Huang ,
Jason H. Moore  and
Yu Zhang
Xiuzhen Huang
Affiliation:
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Jason H. Moore
Affiliation:
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Yu Zhang
Affiliation:
Trinity University, Texas
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Summary

This is a reflection on the international computing community’s efforts to define itself as a discipline and inject computing into the core education of everyone. Their aim is to prepare us for the technology-based society in which we work and live. Scholars who aim to explore the nature of No-Boundary Thinking can learn from the self-reflection of the computing discipline, and No-Boundary Thinking might be an essential solution for the effective integration of computing into the core body of knowledge needed by every educated individual. These connections might also assuage the recent frictions between STEM and liberal arts scholar educators.

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computational thinkingSTEM educationliberal education
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Integrative Bioinformatics for Biomedical Big Data
A No-Boundary Thinking Approach
 , pp. 147 - 155
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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