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The phrase ''computational thinking'' was brought to the forefront of the computer science education community in 2006 as a result of a ''[[Communications of the ACM]]'' essay on the subject by [[Jeannette Wing]]. The essay suggested that thinking computationally was a fundamental skill for everyone, not just computer scientists, and argued for the importance of integrating computational ideas into other subjects in school.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1145/1118178.1118215| title = Computational thinking| journal = [[Communications of the ACM]]| volume = 49| issue = 3| pages = 33–35| year = 2006| url = https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15110-s13/Wing06-ct.pdf| last1 = Wing | first1 = Jeanette M. | s2cid = 1693513| author-link = Jeannette Wing}}</ref> The essay also said that by learning computational thinking, children will be better in many everyday tasks—as examples, the essay gave packing one's backpack, finding one's lost mittens, and knowing when to stop renting and buying instead. The continuum of computational thinking questions in education ranges from K–9 computing for children to professional and continuing education, where the challenge is how to communicate deep principles, maxims, and ways of thinking between experts.<ref name=":3" />
For the first ten years computational thinking was a US-centered movement, and still today that early focus is seen in the field's research.<ref name=":6">{{Cite journal|last=Saqr|first=Mohammed|last2=Ng|first2=Kwok|last3=Oyelere|first3=Solomon Sunday|last4=Tedre|first4=Matti|date=2021-03-02|title=People, Ideas, Milestones: A Scientometric Study of Computational Thinking|url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3445984|journal=ACM Transactions on Computing Education|volume=21|issue=3|pages=20:1–20:17|doi=10.1145/3445984|doi-access=free}}</ref> The field's most cited articles and most cited people were active in the early US CT wave, and the field's most active researcher networks are US-based.<ref name=":6" /> Dominated by US and European researchers, it is unclear to what extent can the field's predominantly Western body of research literature cater to the needs of students in other cultural groups.<ref name=":6" />
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