A nation wide program...4000 kids...game developers....with Scratch.
What are the challenges? What are the pedagogical and technical approach to implement it?
This year, the code::XtremeApps:: competition in Singapore held a workshop in the Junior Category for children under 12 to learn to program Scratch stories about environmental awareness.
Encouraging Creators Rather than Consumers. Scratch@MIT 2010 presentation. Describes the Scratch activities of the Technology Volunteers, from the University of Warwick.
Slide show for panel from Scratch@MIT 2010, with examples of ways Scratch is being integrated into math/science classes. Participants considered structures that would help to involve more classes.
What happens when youth use Scratch in multiple settings? Here I discuss how youth at one school used Scratch in different settings in complementary ways
Parker discusses some of the difficulties students face in transitioning from Scratch to more advanced programming languages, and suggests how the instructor can support this transition.