It occurs to me to ask Ms Wente a few questions.:
1) Have you ever sorted a list?
2) Have you ever priotized a task?
3) Have you ever categorized colours? Shapes? Buttons? Socks or laundry? 
4) Have you ever played Telephone? Memorized a number for later use?

I suspect you have and you can do them all - life skills and most jobs would require these basics skill sets be in place: the ability to sort, categorize, prioritze, and recall basic information and relay thst information easily. 

These are ALL computation thinking tasks that can be modelled both digitally and in the real world, that support logical reasoning & problem solving as well as leveraging many of the Fullan's 6Cs depending on the task's structure. 

But here's the incredible thing about "coding". You will be encountering these tasks and structures consistently. Set asisde actual coding where this occurs often with variables and lists but also in computational thinking where many descisions will need to be made.