"Controlling Our World" poster presentation and resources given at the Scratch@MIT 2014 conference. Use them to easily learn how to use an Arduino with Scratch.
Contributed by Christopher Hampson, September 07, 2010
SCRATCH elegantly meets a deep need within many urban schools: a tool that allows students to create with computers. But how do we use it? This resource suggests six strategies for getting started.
We told them, "You can take a break for donuts, now." None of them stopped coding! See the outcomes of We Can Code IT's successful Make your own Virtual Pet in Scratch Workshop.
While the sessions were set from 9:00am – 3:00pm each day, from Day 2 we had kids coming in as early as 7:30am and leaving as late as 5:00pm (when we told them to go home :))
People from the Education Department in Catalonia came to our school to record one sessions of our workshop and interviewed students, teachers and parents.
Everyone is their own worst critic. Seung Joon Choi is passionate about education innovation, but when asked about Scratch Day Seoul, he says, “It was quite a success, but not that big of a success.”
Mitch Resnick and I recently hosted a workshop with 16 Scratch educators, to discuss strategies for introducing Scratch to young people and other educators.