STEAM for all: New Computational Thinking Curricula in Spanish Formal Secondary Education

Abstract

In this article, the authors introduce the new educational curricula for Computing and Robotics in Andalusia [1], that will be offered as an optional subject for more than three hundred thousand students during 2021/2022 academic year and so on. This curriculum offers young students, aged 12-15 years old, with the opportunity to gain a better understanding on how our digital world works, as well as, developing a set of skills known as computational thinking. This term refers to a way of understanding and solving problems, in any discipline, with the help of computers.ç