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Learning Programming with Scratch
| May 25th, 2011 | Parents, Videos

Scratch is a programming environment designed to allow kids as young as 8 years old to create impressive computer games, stories, and animations. It is so fun kids don’t even realize they are learning important programming concepts at the same time. Add that with the fact that it is the programming language used most by 6th to 9th graders and you will see why we recommend most students use Scratch as their first programming experience. Drag-and-Drop Programming Creating a program in [...]

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Programming Encourages Creativity, But Do Schools?
| May 12th, 2011 | Theory, Videos

Do schools encourage creativity? They may try, but are they are not very effective. Here is a better question – can schools come up with a way to measure creative progress? Is there such a thing as “imagining and creating at a 6th grade level” as there is for “reading and writing at a 6th grade level”? If there was, it would probably have an inverse relationship to the reading scale – you are more creative in kindergarten than in high [...]

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