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Teacher-to-Teacher: You Don't Have To Be An Expert...
Posted by Alexa Kutler, March 09, 2018
Rick Bush, an Educator from Portland, OR reminds fellow educators: You don't have to be an expert to teach with Scratch...
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Scratch Project for the Women International Day (March 8th 2018)
Posted by Amanda Antorino, February 20, 2018
We have a special project for the Women International Day! Join us and remix our project with your students! :)
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Teacher-to-Teacher: The Expressive Potential of Coding
Posted by ScratchEd Team, February 15, 2018
Creative computing, for me, is all about understanding and exploring the expressive potential of coding...
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Teacher-to-Teacher: Take a Chance, Code a Cookie
Posted by ScratchEd Team, February 15, 2018
Code a Cookie...It’s been messy, colorful, and playful — everything I would want in a programming experience. Would I categorize this activity as creative computing? Absolutely.
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Teacher-to-Teacher: Creating Space for Exploration
Posted by ScratchEd Team, February 15, 2018
As a special education teacher in the Chicago Public Schools, I’m always on the lookout for opportunities to facilitate creative computing in ways that are authentic and meaningful...
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Teacher-to-Teacher: Connecting Professional Learning to Classroom Practice
Posted by ScratchEd Team, February 15, 2018
I am looking down the hallway. As kids pass in front of me... I wonder: Am I serving these kids to the best of my ability? How can I teach them...coding... when I don’t even know how to do it myself?
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Teacher-to-Teacher: Embracing the Design Process
Posted by ScratchEd Team, February 15, 2018
Can computing can be a creative activity? Janet Dee explores this in a letter to #CSEdWeek educators.
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Teacher-to-Teacher: Amplifying Student Voice
Posted by ScratchEd Team, February 15, 2018
In this letter, I choose to elevate my students’ voices; I want my diverse K–5 students to speak to you about how you can amplify student voice... while teaching creative computing beyond #CSEdWeek!
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Teacher-to-Teacher: Keeping the Magic Alive
Posted by ScratchEd Team, February 15, 2018
In January, after Computer Science Education Week and Hour of Code have passed... how do we keep this magic alive in classrooms and nurture the culture of creative computing in and among our schools?
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Student's View: The Benefits of Understanding Programming and Scratch
Posted by cliff manning, March 20, 2012
High school students from the UK blog about how how they use Scratch in school and why learning programming matters.
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Creative Computing Spotlight: Kentucky's Student Technology Leadership Program
Posted by Alexa Kutler, October 30, 2017
Creative Computing is thriving in Kentucky, where, among many great initiatives, organizers have put together STLP, the Student Technology Leadership Program.
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International Scratch Challenge#2
Posted by reggiani olivier, September 21, 2017
3 challenges, one year!
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Diving Into Deeper Learning
Posted by ScratchEd Team, January 04, 2017
How can professional learning go deeper and be more useful?
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How to Host a Small Scratch Day
Posted by ScratchEd Team, May 03, 2017
Thinking of hosting a small Scratch Day celebration in your classroom or school? Check out this interview with Scratch Day host, Heloisa Zalcberg.
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The game of robot-plotter
Posted by Fabrizio Pivari, March 21, 2017
During Pi Day 2017 at Rovigo, Italy I teach coding with a new game: the game of robot-plotter
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New Scratch Feature: Record Project Video
Posted by ScratchEd Team, January 07, 2016
The new Scratch Record Project Video feature is a free and easy-to-use tool for students and teachers to document their process and projects.
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Water Drops : an interdisciplinary project for our annual Art Night.
Posted by Elisabeth Lepert, April 04, 2016
A 7th grade class creates an Art project using geometrical concepts and coding.
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​How to Join the ScratchEd Meetups Network
Posted by ScratchEd Team, December 08, 2016
Support and celebrate teacher learning by joining the ScratchEd Meetups Network. Here are three ways you can participate:
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8 Ways to Use Scratch Coding Cards in Your Classroom
Posted by ScratchEd Team, February 17, 2017
Natalie Rusk, creator of the new Scratch Coding cards, shares eight ways to use the cards in the classroom.
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Making Math with Scratch
Posted by ScratchEd Team, March 01, 2017
What can it look like to build deep math understanding through Scratch, as a teacher and as a student?
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A Nerd
Posted by Devanshi Padsala, March 13, 2017
I am sharing my personal experience about the difference between the education system in India and America and how I am using scratch to change other lives.
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Letting Students Take the Lead with Scratch
Posted by ScratchEd Team, February 15, 2017
Ryan Smith, a school board technology services consultant in Bracebridge, Ontario, facilitates professional development that helps flip typical student/teacher roles.
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Building Peace with Programming
Posted by ScratchEd Team, February 16, 2017
The Nairobi Play Project believes that all youth have the right to imagine, learn, and build the world they live in.
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Empowerment and Equity Through Making and Scratch
Posted by ScratchEd Team, January 23, 2017
Sue Cusack and Jacy Edelman, of Lesley University's STEAM Makerspace, share their perspectives on the powerful potential of Scratch in the classroom.
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Learning and Teaching Creative Computing in Rural Communities
Posted by ScratchEd Team, January 05, 2017
Through her mobile learning lab and her work with a local non-profit, Kim Desveaux is working to spread Scratch to students in rural Canada.
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