This video features Australian students (girls) sharing their learning eperiences using Scratch. We can hardly wait to feature our kids/students sharing what they have learned thus far. Coming soon!
Scratch project explaining physics d = rt formula:
Making two sprites move randomly:
The kids go for round 2!
They came back for more! In this second Scratch session every student accomplished a series of programming tasks: 1) They used the sound feature and with a microphone recorded their voices and then programmed their individual sprites to “talk”. 2) They added backgrounds and incorporated their sprites in them. 3) Each student has so far named and saved their ongoing projects in flash drives, but in the next session, we will have them begin saving their work in digital notebooks. We can’t wait to see them again!
“We want our children to understand and play an active role in the digital world
that surrounds them, not to be passive consumers of an opaque and mysterious
technology. A sound understanding of computing concepts will help them see
how to get the best from the systems they use, and how to solve problems when
things go wrong. Moreover, citizens able to think in computational terms would
be able to understand and rationally argue about issues involving computation,
such as software patents, identity theft, genetic engineering, electronic voting
systems for elections, and so on. In a world suffused by computation, every
school-leaver should have an understanding of computing.”–CAS