Digital technology is part of young children’s lives. Many are able to pick up a digital device and use it with ease – more so than many adults around them. But we should ask for much more. Meaningful participation in digital environments also requires being able to manage technology and use it in creative ways. This means developing skills that go beyond knowing how to use any particular digital device, and beyond learning any specific coding language. Instead, we can help children build computational thinking, a more active way of engaging with digital technology. Computational thinking is the process involved in formulating and breaking down problems into small units and in designing instructions that a computer can carry out to solve those.
