Author(s)

Xiulin Ma, Jiayong Wang, Yu Fan

School of Educational Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

With the widespread application of generative artificial intelligence in the field of education, the importance of cultivating computational thinking has been increasingly valued in forming talents with information literacy and independent innovation ability. However, there are still many confusions about how to cultivate students’ computational thinking ability in middle school information technology courses and how to integrate computational thinking ability into basic education and teaching activities. Therefore, based on the conceptual framework of computational thinking and guided by DBR theory, this study developed a designing activity-based teaching design for the cultivation of computational thinking ability, and carried out multiple rounds of iterative teaching practice. The results of the practice show that the design ability and innovation ability, the grades of the usual works and the final test scores, the learning methods and thinking methods, the interest and attitude towards computational thinking of the students in the experimental class have all been significantly improved, indicating that the high school information technology course that incorporates computational thinking content has achieved good teaching results.

Computational Thinking, DBR, High School Information Technology Course, Multimedia Work Design, Teaching Design

Ma, X.L., Wang, J.Y. and Fan, Y. (2025) Research on the Cultivation of Computational Thinking by High School Information Technology Courses Based on DBR. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 13, 545-565. doi: 10.4236/jss.2025.137030.