Education 2.0 & 3.0

Make games, stories and interactive art with Scratch. (scratch.mit.edu)

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Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

When we ask young people what motivates their participation on Scratch, they often emphasize the importance of their friends and other peers. Whether in person or online, peers motivate creative learning by sharing ideas, collaborating on projects, offering help, providing encouragement, and creating a sense of connection and community.

While there are numerous benefits to peer learning, I know from experience how challenging it can be to organize and facilitate a class or workshop so that all students have positive peer interactions and constructive collaborations. I have become fascinated to learn about the different ways that educators are supporting peer learning with Scratch.

Memo from Ceebee, on behalf of Scratch Team (Jan 2, 2019) with FAQ Scratch overview video “Our educational mission is to engage students in thinking creatively, reasoning systematically and working collaboratively” - Mitch Resnick article Jan 3, 2019 Download the #CreativeComputing Curriculum Guide!

Accelerating Innovation in Education

איך מטמיעים עבודת סקראץ' ב - WIX

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Our free Code Club projects help children improve their computer science skills using different programming languages like Scratch, Python, HTML, CSS, and more.

I love bringing physical computing into my classrooms:

Physical computing means building interactive physical systems by the use of software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world. Physical computing is a creative framework for understanding human beings’ relationship to the digital world. In practical use, the term most often describes handmade art, design or DIY hobby projects that use sensors and microcontrollers to translate analog input to a software system, and/or control electro-mechanical devices such as motors, servos, lighting or other hardware (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_computing).

. . . but as with all use of educational technologies, I believe that it should be used intentionally to assist learners in developing and expanding their content knowledge and life skills.

Presentamos una recopilación de proyectos para empezar a programar con Scratch en los primeros niveles educativos de Infantil y Primaria.

A couple of weeks ago, I started creating a sound word game with one of my favorite Piggie and Gerald books, Pigs Make Me Sneeze. Around the same time, I saw a post from Tom Heck in the Makey Makey Educator group where participants in his workshop  created an invention that helps young students learn new words. It was a serendipitous a-ha moment for me! I could make my own interactive word board so that my kinder kids could be empowered to play the sight word matching game on their own!

By Katrina Schwartz

I can’t remember the first time I used Scratch.  I am fairly certain it wasn’t before I started my library life, so sometime in the past three years?  My vague memories should not be any indicator of my feelings about Scratch though.  I love Scratch! For those uninitiated, Scratch is a drag and drop coding platform created by the folks at MIT’s Media Lab, an innovative, tech focused, research facility located in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Using color- coded, drag and drop blocks, Scratch demystifies computer programing, builds creative thinking and problem solving skills, and encourages students to learn by doing.

A very cool project I did with 4K. All the lessons plans are available here

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Computer science resources from a teacher in the California public school district based on her many years of teaching experience to provide computer science for all. Computer science and technology education for schools, with a focus on art, design and creativity. STEM education in Los Altos School district, public school district, Cupertino schools, Rocketship schools in San Francisco bay area, California. Professional development for computer science teachers with workshops and articles. Focus on computer science education and teaching students to code. Computer programming introduced through art and math connections.Use of MIT's Scratch programming language as well as SketchUp, Inkscape, Logo, Processing, Python, Arduino, Khan Academy CS platform.