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John Pearce

Rutgers University Project Uses Scratch to Make Household Appliances Easily Programmable - 0 views

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    "Scratch is often cited as one of the best introductory languages for teaching kids - or anyone, really - to code. So it's no surprise that a Rutgers University honors class called "Programming for the Masses" would utilize Scratch as part of its goal of making programming a more accessible, everyday skill. What is unique - and if I may say so, pretty fun - is the direction that a research project, an outgrowth of the class, has taken since. The project is called Scratchable Devices, and with it, computer science Professor Michael Littman and some of his students are working to make it easy for anyone to program their household devices by using Scratch."
Roland Gesthuizen

Short Scratch Programming Challenges | ScratchEd - 0 views

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    "Building programming capacities through coding mini-challenges"
Roland Gesthuizen

kidsprogramming / Scratch - 1 views

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    "Scratch is a visual programming environment that allows students to easily learn the constructs of computer programming that the environment provides. It comes with an extensive library of programs that can be deconstructed to allow the relativly rapid uptake of a basic understanding of programming."
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    Interesting programming outline by Mike from ECAWA, Western Australia.
Roland Gesthuizen

Teaching Kids To Think Using Scratch | Betchablog - 0 views

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    "Scratch takes all of the essential programming constructs like sequencing, conditional branching, control structures, data manipulations, etc, and wraps them in a very friendly, very easy to use environment that even the youngest students can use with just a little knowledge.  It's quite intuitive to learn and you can do simple things fairly easily, yet there is really no limit as to how far you take it."  
Roland Gesthuizen

Sorting Algorithms - 0 views

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    Teach #cs4hs computational thinking with #scratch. Scroll down to see the sorting algorithm dancers.
Roland Gesthuizen

What are the 4 R's Essential to 21st Century Learning? | HASTAC - 0 views

  • the beauty of teaching even the youngest kids algorithms and algorithmic or procedural thinking is that it gives them the same tool of agency and production that writing and even reading gave to industrial age learners who, for the first time in history, had access to cheap books and other forms of print.
  • Interestingly, unlike math, which can often be difficult to teach in all of its abstraction, algorithms do stuff.   Algorithms are operational.  You show kids how to use a program like Scratch or Hackasaurus and, very soon, they can actually manipulate, create, and do, in their very own and special way.   
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    "The classic "3 R's" of learning are, of course, Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic.  For the 21st century, we need to add a fourth R--and it will help inspire the other three:  Algorithm. "
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