Media MashUp is designed to support the ability of informal educators to use Scratch and other rich media tools to offer compelling opportunities that engage youth in the art of digital creation.
RIchmond, VA-metro area teachers have been learning about problem-solving and critical thinking through a number of example Scratch projects from Goochland County Public Schools.
A nation wide program...4000 kids...game developers....with Scratch.
What are the challenges? What are the pedagogical and technical approach to implement it?
A set of activities in which students have all of the "pieces" of the code and they have to figure out how to assemble them to get the program to do the described task.
A paper describing one experience of teaching Scratch in a primary school in England and discusses possibilites for embedding Scratch into the wider curriculum.