Seleção e avaliação de ferramentas para a promoção do pensamento computacional

Abstract

It's true that technology became a reality for many people, whether they are academics or not. The information spreads quickly and many objects are created for the general public. Some of these tools are intended to assist the students in the development of some cognitive skills related to the Computational Thinking (CT). This work has as objective research and select tools used to the promotion of the CT and evaluates these tools through a evaluation technique of Educational Software, with emphasis in the usability of these softwares. The evaluation was performed by means of a user perspective approach with the help of two researchers. Therefore, the Reeve's techinique was adapted, and some author's criteria were selected to assist in the validation of this research.