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Concerns about remixing?

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Karen Brennan
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Awesome ScratchEd intern Vanessa Gennarelli asked me, "What do educators think about remixing and Scratch? In particular, what concerns do they have about using remixing as a practice in their classrooms?"

I suggested that we ask you here on ScratchEd.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

 

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Stefano Federici
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As for using remixing in classroom, educators could think that remixing can be interpreted by students as simply "copying" without need to acquire a deeper knowledge of what they copied. It's the teacher's to evaluate how much the student's project is a real evolution of the original project.

Sometimes students tend to hide the fact that they started from someone else's project. That is why I'm asking my students to develop Scratch-only projects to present to the discussion for their exams. Even if I explain both Scratch and BYOB, I must rely on the incredibly useful ability of the Scratch website of spotting remixes (something that I do not explain to my students :-) I can immediately understand if a project is not by a student, but I must be able to show to the student the original project otherwise... it would be just my opinion.

 

 

Karen Brennan
Member

I really like the idea of the "evolution" of a project...

Thanks for sharing!

Stefano Federici
Member

Remixing is a great way of augmenting knowledge by analysing and building upon what has been already done by others. Without "remixes" (hyperlinks!) the Internet won't be there!

Karen Brennan
Member

Totally agreed! :)

Can you think of anything that would cause people to not want to engage in remixing?