Get Started with SCRATCH — If you still haven’t

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Get Started with SCRATCH — If you still haven’t

With SCRATCH, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.

SCRATCH helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.

SCRATCH is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge.

https://scratch.mit.edu/
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=all

What do young people learn as they create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art with Scratch?

For one thing, they learn mathematical and computational ideas that are built into the Scratch experience. As students create programs in Scratch, they learn core computational concepts such as iteration and conditionals. They also gain an understanding of important mathematical concepts such as coordinates, variables, and random numbers.

As students work on Scratch projects, they also learn about the process of design. Typically, a student will start with an idea, create a working prototype, experiment with it, debug it when things go wrong, get feedback from others, then revise and redesign it. It’s a continuous spiral: get an idea, create a project, which leads to new ideas, which lead to new projects, and on and on.

This project-design process combines many of the 21stcentury learning skillsthat will becritical to success in the future: thinking creatively, communicating clearly, analyzing systematically, collaborating effectively, designing iteratively, learning continuously.

Participate in the SCRATCH Animation Contest conducted by NexGen Training Centre – “Create an Animated project about your family”

Win an Online Workshop for FREE
Last Date to Submit : Thursday – 4th June, 2020