A colleague of mine wanted to understand more about what Computational Thinking is. He is an Artist and felt that Computational Thinking was something he used everyday but still a little unsure. I decided to send him a bunch of videos showing how much we use and rely upon Computational Thinking everyday. Whether you are an artist, scientist, Engineer at Google, or student Computational Thinking is present and makes possible the world we see. I hope these videos are equally useful to you in explaining to others what Computational Thinking is:
Synthetic Life - Craig Venter started the human genome project and they used that information to make the ultimate algorithm, a synthetic cell
Teaching Kids Real Math with Computers - In this viral video, Conrad Wolfram says that math > calculation and with Computational Thinking we can teach students far more than we ever thought.
The End of Theory - Not a video, but a revealing article about why students need to learn how to work with data and statistical analysis.