Abstract:

In the current context of the evolution of technology and its ubiquity in all areas of society, the preparation of people to be able to be users and developers of it is seen as a necessary challenge for the next future. The introduction of technology in the curriculum, and a new idea of thinking to take advantage of it, must be a mandatory step, so that educational systems should take it into account. One of the possible ways of introduction, knowing the current system based on competences, is the use of a cross-curricular competence, such as Computational Thinking. We therefore propose the integrating of the cross-curricular competence of Computational Thinking to adapt to the new digital era. In our engineering school, we are implementing activities in that sense and we present one of them together with some conclusions based on the obtained results, where we can observe the lack of preparation, in general, of students entering university. These conclusions invite the reader to reconsider certainly the meaning and role of technology in the digital era, and its appropriateness in the education system, not only in the almost inevitable evolution of the university, but also in the transformation of society.

Keywords:

Cross-curricular competences, training, Computational Thinking, digital era.