What is it??
It is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, designed especially for students from 8 to 16 years old, but can be used by people of all ages.It is provided free of charge.
What can you do?
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations. You can start making your own projects using scratch or try out starter projects from their community library. Since it is a block-based visual programming language it requires practice and time to design your own activities, but the outcome is priceless. They offer additional resources like tutorials, ideas, and coding cards for step-by-step instructions.
Scratch offer more features for educators, but your teacher account will be available after 1 or 2 days. Meanwhile you can practice using the regular account.
Technology Enhanced Activity
I used this technology tool to create a game for my Kindergarten students to practice a group of High-frequently used words that they need to be able to recognize by sight. You can select different backgrounds, characters, sounds.
When directed to the game, they will find the instructions to write their names and by using the mouse click on the words. They will listen to the correct pronunciation of the sight words and continue selecting the words and get scored every time they click on the words, instead of numbers or other characters.
Please, take a look of the activity and give me some feedback!!
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.