Computational thinking to enhance educational robotics in secondary school’s curriculum

Educational robotics is a great resource for enhance problem solving and critical thinking, as well as for promoting STEAM subjects. An essential part of the correct application of educational robotics in schools is the development of concepts related to computational thinking during the training process of students. Similarly, 21st century skills are accepted as part of students' educational development. That is why this paper aims to relate the theoretical framework of computational thinking, with the abilities and skills of the 21st century and the knowledge of the secondary school curriculum linked to the STEAM subjects. For this reason, an analysis of the literature is carried out, where the concepts and skills of computational thinking are related. Finally, a proposal is made to link these concepts of the theoretical framework of computational thinking in the official curriculum of a secondary school in the Catalan’s (Spain) education system.