tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4246418667558765155.post1305250352450479208..comments2022-12-11T10:51:50.769+01:00Comments on Learning (by) Teaching: ScratchJulia Tsyganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354702485097004759noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4246418667558765155.post-77851596893852355662010-12-08T18:14:38.666+01:002010-12-08T18:14:38.666+01:00There's a fair amount of stuff for younger kid...There's a fair amount of stuff for younger kids (10-13) and then there are college cs departments using it to study algorithms. Not that much for high school kids. In my mind it would be ideal to start kids off with something like this when they're nine or ten. Use it in the classroom a few hours a week until they get to high school - then getting them to use even more sophisticated tools (Mathematica?) would be much easier. Let them make games! (With plenty of teacher guidance of course.)<br /><br />Still, I guess there is stuff you could do with high school students if you dared to steal some time from the test preparation curriculum. The few examples like this one:<br />http://scratched.media.mit.edu/sites/default/files/Graphing%20assignment.pdf<br />are pretty boring. But maybe not boring compared to doing problems from the book.J. Swanljunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06600229922051100087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4246418667558765155.post-26539846277879402882010-12-08T17:48:13.035+01:002010-12-08T17:48:13.035+01:00There is a Scratch community for educators: http:/...There is a Scratch community for educators: http://scratched.media.mit.edu/<br /><br />There are a lot of suggestions for teaching material there, although I haven't had time to look closely at any of them.J. Swanljunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06600229922051100087noreply@blogger.com