Anthony Speranza, talked about the value of scratch for teaching children to code. It allows children to create code and not be caught out by HTML which will not work with one tiny error. 
We want to engage learners is productive learning that they love.
Can we design learning that links to the key ideas Projects, with their peers, the inspire passion and play.
This video is so powerful. It gets you thinking about how children use technology are they being consumers of content or creator to content.
When we think about our own digital technologies curriculum it talks about getting children to think computationally and really getting kids to understand how games work.
By giving children an open ended problem and asking them to design and think more about it. What does my program need to be effective.
It was nice playing with scratch and seeing how much more the children can do now the scratch 3.0 is out!! Yay! Perfect timing for our inquiry topic next term.
If you have not explored CSFirst now might be the time. CSFirst is designed so that you as a teacher have a full lesson plan with videos so you can learn about teaching scratch while the learners jump straight in.
Scratch can also be integrated with Makey Makey, they plug into a usb and it think it is a key board. This can be used to create paper circuits to play music.
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