ARTStem Participant Takes SCRATCH Into Classroom

Ashley Witherspoon sends us some links to student SCRATCH projects.

First, what's SCRATCH, again? Back in November, ARTStem collaborated with the Center for Design Innovation— for a hands-on SCRATCH workshop that was part of the CDI’s roster of events during the Winston-Salem Arts Council’s recent “6 Days in November.” SCRATCH is a free, downloadable computer programming language/application designed by folks at the MIT Media Lab, who explain that “Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.”

Thanks, Ashley, for taking what we learned there, experimenting with it in the classroom, and sharing some of the first results. They're shared freely here, since they're already posted to the public SCRATCH website. (**note: if you want to explore the kind of coding that the students learned while creating these projects, follow the instructions to download the free application and view the projects in Scratch)

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/odoylerules/851070
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/flammingsacks/811916
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Babyt/845105
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/allenpapismith/845181
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/hell0destini/829987