Computing Science and the Life of Learners in the Digital Age

Abstract

Computing Science is included in the core curriculum of basic education in 2008 (revised edition of standards and indicators in 2017) in Science Department, Technology (S 4.2) in accordance with lifestyle changes in the world of technology with objective of promoting analytic thinking, reasonable thinking, critical thinking, creative thinking, access information and technology by applying guidelines obtained from effective daily life to analyze and develop learning management for learners to create a thought process. Apply knowledge from skills training, accumulating experience, problem solving, planning process and design process make students who study in the course of computational science able to understand the thought process and problems solving easily, form meaningful learning and apply it in daily life creatively and appropriately in accordance with learning in the 21st century that is necessary in todays and the future. Technology and learning in the digital world play an increasingly important role in life. Therefore, students need to have a basic knowledge and problem-solving skills in using resources, knowledge building, life protection in the online world to happen creatively on the basis of morality and ethics, ready to cope with changes in daily life, know how to use technology through the thinking process and effective life skills in every changing of the era.