From Computational Thinking to Systems Thinking: A conceptual toolkit for sustainability computing
From Computational Thinking to Systems Thinking: A conceptual toolkit for sustainability computing
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从计算思维到系统思维：可持续计算的概念工具包
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2014
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S. Easterbrook
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S. Easterbrook
如果信息和通信技术(ICT)要给可持续社会带来变革性的变化，那么我们就需要转变我们的思维方式。计算机专业人士已经有了解决问题的概念性工具包，有时被称为计算思维。然而，计算思维倾向于用一系列具有计算解(或解类型)的问题(或问题类型)来看待世界。另一方面，可持续性要求采取更系统的方法，以避免技术解决方案主义，并承认技术、人类行为和环境影响是紧密相关的。在本文中，我认为系统思维提供了从计算思维到可持续发展实践的必要桥梁，因为它为关于可持续性的推理提供了一个领域本体论，为关于变革的推理提供了概念基础，并为关于技术的社会和环境影响的批判性思考提供了一套方法。最后，我就如何将这些理念融入计算机和信息科学的本科课程提出了一系列建议。
If information and communication technologies (ICT) are to bring about a transformational change to a sustainable society, then we need to transform our thinking. Computer professionals already have a conceptual toolkit for problem solving, sometimes known as computational thinking. However, computational thinking tends to see the world in terms a series of problems (or problem types) that have computational solutions (or solution types). Sustainability, on the other hand, demands a more systemic approach, to avoid technological solutionism, and to acknowledge that technology, human behaviour and environmental impacts are tightly inter-related. In this paper, I argue that systems thinking provides the necessary bridge from computational thinking to sustainability practice, as it provides a domain ontology for reasoning about sustainability, a conceptual basis for reasoning about transformational change, and a set of methods for critical thinking about the social and environmental impacts of technology. I end the paper with a set of suggestions for how to build these ideas into the undergraduate curriculum for computer and information sciences.