Presenter: Geoffrey Derry
Location: Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
@gderry
Presentation Title: Scratching Kids Brains
Presentation Description: Scratch is a Programming language designed to be very powerful yet easy to use. It is the perfect way to introduce programming and programming concepts to school students of any age. It is easy to get started with but powerful enough to create games, interactive presentations, music, stories and solve problems. It is a great way to get kids playing and sandboxing with computers making them think in deep ways. For me Scratch is a constructivist’s dream come true, allowing students to understand their own problems, make mistakes and try new things. This presentation will give you a brief introduction to scratch, provide you with resources to explore it further and show ways I have used scratch to get students creating, playing and learning. It is suitable for any teacher in any subject area who is interested in providing students with a powerful tool to create and learn on their own.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://ge.tt/8kSo7FA?c
Additional Information:
Link to my blog
http://wiki.ssis-suzhou.net/users/geoffreyderry/