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WTDC 2017

The current challenge of Uruguay’s Ceibal Plan is to incorporate computational thinking into education

Fiorella Haim, general manager of the initiative, said that they are working in three areas to achieve this. In elementary schools, there are already 40 establishments with an ongoing pilot, in which computational thinking classes are given to children aged 10 to 12 years old. "This type of thinking is to solve problems, not necessarily through code, but taking small parts, doing abstractions or designing algorithms," he said.

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América Móvil's earnings fell 55% due to peso strength

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