Scratch Lessons
31 Dec 2018

SCRATCH

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What is Scratch?

Scratch is a visual programming language targeted primarily at children from 8 years old and above, by coding with bricks in the editor. 

With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.

Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.

Using Scratch allows young people to understand the logic of programming and how to creatively build and collaborate. Scratch lets students create “meaningful personal as well as educational projects” which gives students a “practical tool” to express themselves after learning to use the language.

Who created Scratch?

Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.

Who Uses Scratch?

Scratch has proven to be a popular initiative with over 25,000,000 student projects created to date. The program, which is used in more than 150 different countries and is available in more than 40 languages, has replaced PowerPoint as the presentation software of choice in many schools. In addition to fostering coding literacy, the program is known for being a fun way to help students solve problems logically, work collaboratively and improve communication skills.

Scratch is taught to more than 800 schools and 70 colleges of DAV organization in India and across the world.

Harvard University lecturer Dr. David J. Malan prefers using Scratch over commonly used introductory programming languages, such as Java or C, in his introductory computer science course.

Animated Story Created using Scratch

ScratchJr Lessons
31 Dec 2018

SCRATCHJr

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ScratchJr is an introductory visual programming language that enables young children (ages 5-7) to create their own animations, interactive stories and games. The graphical programming blocks enables children to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. Children can modify characters in the paint editor, add their own voices and sounds, even insert photos of themselves — then use the programming blocks to make their characters come to life.

By creating projects in ScratchJr, young children can learn to think creatively and reason systematically, despite not being able to read.

Coding is the new literacy! In the process of coding, children learn to solve problems and design projects, and they develop sequencing skills that are foundational for later academic success. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy. With ScratchJr, children aren’t just learning to code, they are coding to learn.

In 2016, ScratchJr was used in all 50 states in the United States of America, and in all but five countries worldwide.

ScratchJr is a collaboration between the Developmental Technologies (DevTech) Research Group at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University, the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab and the Playful Invention Company.

Course Details

Includes unplugged activities to help enhance the understanding of the children. The objective is to make the concept simple, interesting and easier for the children to visualize.

Includes work presentation to give children more opportunities to speak out in order to help develop higher self-confidence.

Includes mini projects and game creations.

Age group: 5 to 7

Number of students per class: Max.16

Course duration: 1 hour per week for 6 months

Course outline:

Animation

  • Programming blocks
  • Motion
  • Commands selection
  • Manage characters and costumes
  • Setting backgrounds
  • Speed control
  • Loop

Story design and creation

  • Dialogue
  • Sound control
  • Manage pages
  • Manage sequencing
  • Messaging

Game creation

  • Triggering blocks
  • Character interactions
  • Creative design

Debugging

Unplugged activities

Presentation

Assessment

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6 Sep 2018

Bill Gates: ‘Everyone can benefit’ from learning this skill

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Bill Gates has been fixated on programming since age 13, when his school got its first computer terminal. “The machine was huge and slow, and it didn’t even have a screen,” he writes on his blog, Gates Notes. “But I was hooked.”

He spent as much time as he could learning about computers, hacking and coding. “That introduction to computer science changed the course of my life,” says the Microsoft co-founder.

Today, half a century later, Gates still believes that “everyone can benefit from learning the basics of computer science. The questions it teaches you to ask — How do you accomplish a task? Can you find a pattern? What data do you need? — are useful no matter where you go in life.”

Bill Gates (Photo By Adam Galica | CNBC)

Other successful individuals agree with Gates, including his wife Melinda. As she said in 2017 during Computer Science Education Week, computer literacy is an “essential skill” and computer science has the power to change the world: “The more we encourage different kinds of people to get interested in technology the better that future will be.”

And if Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian could give his 20-year-old self one piece of advice, it would be to stick with computer science.

He took the one CS class offered at his high school in Columbia, Maryland, and thought he might become a programmer, he said during a Facebook Live Q&A hosted by 1850 Brand Coffee. But when he got to the University of Virginia and met a few computer science majors, he lost confidence.

Looking back, “I wish I had the confidence and the conviction to actually stick with it and keep with it,” said the 35-year-old, who ended up majoring in history and business.

 

“I’m thrilled I got the history major, but I think if I had done the computer science major instead of the business major it would have actually helped me a lot more, career-wise,” he said.

The major worked out for Ohanian, who sold Reddit within two years of launching it and became a multi-millionaire at age 23, but his advice to students today is to take at least one computer science class and try it out.

“I took a bus when my book came out and visited 82 universities — this was back in 2013 — just to evangelize to as many college students as I could, learning to code, even if it was just for giggles,” said Ohanian. “It’s the most valuable thing you can do for your career.”

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/bill-gates-everyone-can-benefit-from-learning-this-skill.html