A good point well made… and pretty much the underpinning of our IoTKG program:

“Computational action, a new framing for computing education, proposes that while learning about computing, young people should also have opportunities to create with computing that have direct impact on their lives and their communities.”

Envisioning computing education that both teaches and empowers.

Source: From Computational Thinking to Computational Action | March 2019 | Communications of the ACM