Using scratch to develop reasoning skills in Mexico
Contributed by
Miguel Angel Perez Alvarez, October 29, 2010
Mitch. >>> >>> The end of the semester let me give you some input about our oroject >> >>> with >>> scratch. More tha 300 mexican students work for four months with >>> scratch. All of >>> them develop in three students different types of videogames. My >>> purpose was to >>> generate a learning environment who let students to develop >>> reasoning skills >>> (both cognitive and metacognitive). The next semester the students >>> can choose >>> different types of simulators. I will send you some news then. >>> >>> Thanks in advance for all your support. Was very excinting to >>> discover Scratch >>> in your workshop here in Telmex some years ago. I was using >>> Logowriter and Lego >>> Mindstorms for 18 years and Scratch has all the advantages and >>> ituitiveness for >>> learning I was looking for. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Miguel Angel >>>
Well, we are working this school year with 13 to 16 y.o. students.
They work two hours per week with Scratch.
They are impulsed to use heuristyc learnig (or learning by discovering) to master Scratch, but the main focus is in reasoning and metacognitive developing skills.
The kind of videogames they are programming are no-violent content, strategic thinking challenges as puzzles.
Thanks for sharing your update to Mitch with everyone. I have so many questions!
Thanks!
K