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Elisenda E. Espino Espino
Volumen 4, Número 3 Pags. 119-128
Title- Study about Computational Thinking and Gender
Abstract- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have contributed to develop today's knowledge society. However, there are still some people who do not know what ICT is, what means that it becomes a big problem for our society. In order to make a correct and continuous use it is necessary to teach computational thinking at an early stage. As a good way of starting to use the ICT’s, this study uses the Scratch tool to find out those children’s skills which are linked to computational thinking, as the emotions in programming, and, above all, those gender differences which are emerging when using the computational thinking. Moreover, thanks to that they will be able to evaluate preferences and how they use this programming language with children of 7-14 years. This study has been developed in the event GDG Kids Spain in January 2016 on the island of Tenerife. The results indicate that when children know and experience programming languages, they are able to develop skills that motivate them to continue working on these activities. In turn, girls stand out more than the boys on variables related to computational thinking but they have a very negative self-perception about themselves which affects their self-esteem, perhaps caused by the existing stereotypes in society.
Index Terms- Educational Technology, Computational Thinking, Gender differences, Gender perspective, Scratch.