Analysis of the current context of teaching in higher education to raise awareness in the use of computational thinking

Análisis del contexto actual de enseñanza en educación superior para sensibilizar en el uso en pensamiento computacional

The digital transformation of the last decades has brought many changes and challenges for education, teachers must be alert to all these developments and be in a continuous updating, therefore, it is important to create spaces where they can be trained and thus acquire technical and pedagogical skills to apply in their classes and thus strengthen the computational thinking of their students. Among these technical skills we find decomposition, pattern generalization, abstraction, and algorithmic thinking.

Many research and efforts were found that are being made so that from the classroom the teacher contributes to student learning through computational thinking, these researches involve children, adolescents and young people, it is a creative challenge for everyone, as for those who disseminate these new techniques as for those who receive and apply them in all instances not only in the computational.

In this article we sought to identify the experience of higher education teachers in their classrooms, to identify the strategies they use and how they perceive their students when receiving instruction; it is identified that most students still expect to receive masterly training, they are not very self-taught and as for the perception of the topics they tend to memorize and forget, since they do not use very often the explicit long-term memory where they make learning conscious and the implicit memory where they learn through experience, both can be strengthened by applying computational thinking.

Students should be taught to analyze from computational thinking all the problems of the different subjects and thus their memorization will be explicit conscious, they will not forget, and they will be able to face many challenges of their area of study every day.