Fortalecimiento del pensamiento computacional a través del AVA el lenguaje de los problemas. Un acercamiento a la programación informática.

Abstract

This research presents the design of a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) built and developed on the Moodle 4.0 platform, and supported by different digital tools (ExeLearning, Powtoon, LucidChart, Online GDB and mBlock); to strengthen some computational thinking skills, such as abstraction, decomposition and algorithmic thinking in secondary education students, while addressing activities typical of basic computer programming.

The AVA proposal seeks, through problem situations, typical of the computer science field, to promote some computational thinking skills in students that allow them not only to build well-structured computer programs, but also to apply these skills in problem situations typical of their immediate context. To this end, four work modules are constituted in the VLE; The first of them includes an introductory and diagnostic space for prior knowledge; The second orients the student towards the training purposes set out in the VLE and contains the fundamental concepts related to computer programming; The third proposes a series of problems that must be resolved as a series of activities are developed, distributed in five levels that are presented as a strategy in solving the problem and that must be fulfilled gradually and progressively; and finally, in the fourth module there is a space for participation and discussion.

The VLE proposal is structured and supported under a referential framework that considers: Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), Computational Thinking, Block Programming (PB), Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and constructionism.