Like many ICT teachers I immediately fell in love with Scratch, and have been using it with all of my classes. Sratch is a programming language for kids a bit like MicroWorlds but better. I love Scratch for a number of reasons:
- it is open source and free
- programming is fun with its graphical building blocks
- sprites can be shared (imported and exported)
- projects can be embedded on web pages
- projects aren't compiled and the code can't be hidden (or secured)
- has an active online community
While I would love Scratch to have arrays and allow text to be stored in variables, it really is a great program which allows wonderful projects.
Last year we've created simple animations to demonstrate the life cycle of a plant, maze games, sea environments and photo slideshows.
I'm planning of spending a few posts outlining how we've used Scratch at Concord School
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