Introduction to Computational Thinking With MI-GO: A Friendly Robot

Background

Nowadays, communication is technologically sophisticated but spontaneous; it occurs instantaneously and is becoming more and more accessible than ever, with communication devices getting smaller. Young learners must develop their technological dexterity, critical thinking and digital literacy once DT demands them such skills and also multitasking capacities. Access to information is easier and the world is more global, creating a multicultural society.

Therefore, in today’s world there is the need to guarantee that every young person, as it is mentioned before, and adult citizen becomes a digital citizen, literate and able to use technologies.

Learners must possess all this literacy and knowledge but more: they must be skilled, able, competent and proficient. They are required to hold and to own soft skills as well as hard skills. Nowadays it is quite demanding for young people to prepare themselves for this demanding, competitive and asymmetric professional and academic world where acquiring both soft and hard skills, as well as all other necessary skills, is getting harder and harder.