Computational Thinking in Geometric Concept Construction Using Geogebra Software

Abstract

The knowledge era has allowed new ways of interacting with peers and socially, which allows the promotion of social skills and abilities associating the components of computer science, in order to manage the use of Technology and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the resolution of geometric situations in the practice of construction, elaboration and interaction with geometric prototypes detected in reality and simulated by GeoGebra software in university students. For this purpose, a non-experimental design of comparative descriptive level was applied, in which sessions with interaction of geometric contents and indicators of computational thinking were developed during seven weeks of classes. The development of the experimental activities allowed the resolution of practical situations detected in the process of: design of plans, organization of analytical components of data through abstraction, solutions of specific and complex situations through the heuristic and algorithmic method, in the challenge of creating new geometric prototypes, exploring new ways of learning geometry, creating challenging situations in producing figures through the software under the basic and fundamental principles of the software leading to the development of computational thinking of the students under observation.