How could the content be improved?
Computational thinking's core moves — decompose the problem, sequence the steps, spot the pattern, abstract to a reusable procedure — map closely onto instructing an AI coding agent well. You still have to do that same decomposition to prompt an agent effectively; the agent replaces the manual execution step, not the thinking step.
Proposal: add a section or exercise that reframes one of the existing pen-and-paper problems as "now instruct an AI agent to do this," rather than rewriting the lesson's core. Keeps the lesson unplugged and broadly applicable, while setting learners up for lessons like Agentic Research Workflows that go deeper on AI-specific workflow.
Scope note: this should stay a bridge or case study, not a merge of the two lessons. Part of Computational Thinking's value is that it doesn't require code or an AI tool at all.
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How could the content be improved?
Computational thinking's core moves — decompose the problem, sequence the steps, spot the pattern, abstract to a reusable procedure — map closely onto instructing an AI coding agent well. You still have to do that same decomposition to prompt an agent effectively; the agent replaces the manual execution step, not the thinking step.
Proposal: add a section or exercise that reframes one of the existing pen-and-paper problems as "now instruct an AI agent to do this," rather than rewriting the lesson's core. Keeps the lesson unplugged and broadly applicable, while setting learners up for lessons like Agentic Research Workflows that go deeper on AI-specific workflow.
Scope note: this should stay a bridge or case study, not a merge of the two lessons. Part of Computational Thinking's value is that it doesn't require code or an AI tool at all.
Next steps