It happened. Once they discovered the drawing tool for sprite, they are all over drawing. “The Art Thing” the three year old calls it. She doodle some lines, and then want to make it move. I showed her once or twice that she needs the “flag” orange block and the “loop block” first, then stuff [...]
3 year old is programming Scratch sprite
August 15th, 2008 · No Comments · scratch_kids
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Scratch Conference at MIT
August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · scratch
Scratch is a programing language and environment designed by the MediaLab for used by young children. It is best described as a tool for making programmable media. It is used not just for programming as you know it, but for making games, telling stories, making dynamic artwork.
Education and Computer is an interest of mine. I [...]
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Scratch with Young Children
July 28th, 2008 · No Comments · scratch_kids
This is a first of a long series of post, documenting my “experiment” of introducing and using Scratch with two young kids, G, a four year old boy and M a three year old girl.
First introduction
Taking in all I have learnt from other educators, I first introduce the Scratch environment simply by showing them the [...]
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