Getting Started with Scratch: September 2011 Webinar
Contributed by
ScratchEd Team, September 29, 2011
In this webinar, Karen Brennan and Mitch Resnick presented their strategies of how to get people started with Scratch. They discussed the first two sessions of the Scratch curriculum guide draft, which outlines activities for introducing Scratch using a design-based learning approach. The presentation was followed by a discussion led by questions from webinar attendees.
The presentation slides are attached below.
Here are some resources that were mentioned in the webinar:
- Scratch curriculum guide draft and pilot application: http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/scratch-curriculum-guide-draft
- Books written about Scratch (shown in the image of resources during the presentation): http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_Store
- Examples of Scratch in early education: Preschool (http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/scratch-à-la-maternelle), Kindergarten (http://scratched.media.mit.edu/stories/club-scratch-kids-pilot-project-launched-itjs-kindergarden), Elementary curriculum (http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/introduction-programming, http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/nebo-elementary-school-department-fine-arts-scratch-programming-projects)
- Resources for introducing Scratch in middle school: http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/scratch-lessons-shall-we-learn-scratch-programming-tweens, http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/exploring-computer-science
- Mapping Scratch onto standards: SIGCSE (http://scholar.google.com/
scholar?hl=en&q=sigcse+scratch), http://scratched.media.mit.edu/discussions/teaching-scratch/massachusetts-common-core-and-scratch, 21st Century Skills (http://info.scratch.mit.edu/sites/infoscratch.media.mit.edu/docs/Scratch-21stCenturySkills.pdf) - Scratch reference guide (includes individual block descriptions): http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Support/Reference_Guide_1.4
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