Ed Tech Magazine – Meghan Bogardus Cortez 
Computational thinking — thinking like a computer and using concepts of computer science to solve problems — is one approach that teachers might already be using without even knowing it. Sheena Vaidyanathan, a sixth grade computer science teacher in California’s Los Altos School District, says computational thinking is contained in most elements of problem solving that educators are constantly teaching their students. “We are teaching computational thinking concepts as early as kindergarten when we teach students to process things with steps,” she says.(more)