To work with and inspire educators to engage youth in a range of creative learning experiences within the realm of computer science.
Scratch is a block coding platform that encourages youth to think creatively and computationally. The online Scratch community promotes collaboration and celebrates creating!
Scratch is a project from the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab and is free of charge.
Learn more about Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/about
We are a group of educators, innovators, and enthusiasts that provide professional development for teachers.
Rhode Island’s Creative Computing with Scratch initiative has had a long-term relationship with the Lifelong Kindergarten and we share in their mission to make sure that coding lives up to its full potential as a new form of literacy and personal expression and reflect these beliefs in our professional development and community outreach activities. Many of these ideas are strongly reflected in the article, “A Different Approach to Coding"
The Lifelong Kindergarten group develops new technologies and activities that, in the spirit of the blocks and finger paint of kindergarten, engage people in creative learning experiences. Their ultimate goal is a world full of playfully creative people, who are constantly inventing new possibilities for themselves and their communities.
Please read: “A Different Approach to Coding” .
ScratchEd is an online community of Scratch educators who share resources and support one another while integrating Scratch into their classrooms.
Learn more about ScratchEd: http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/