Each card features colorful instructions for beginners to start coding with Scratch. The front of the card shows an activity kids can do with Scratch — like making music or using a variable to keep ...

The MIT Media Lab recently released ScratchJr, a free iPad app that helps children 5-8 learn how to code. The app is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab, Tufts University, and Playful ...

Scratch 3.0 includes “extensions”—extra collections of coding blocks—that are designed to broaden the range of what students can create with Scratch, to make sure that it connects with the wide ...

“We see coding as a new way for people to organize, express and share their ideas,” said Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research and Director of the Scratch Team at the MIT ...

As homebound students and teachers looked for online resources during the pandemic, many turned to Scratch, a free coding system for kids developed by the MIT Media Lab. Scratch was already a popular ...

Patrice Gans, a technology teacher and library-media specialist in Connecticut, reviews Super Scratch Programming Adventure (No Starch Press, 2012).

Provide a brief tutorial on Scratch interface and basic features (can even use the built in ones through Scratch). Hands-on activity: Create a simple Scratch project to move a sprite. Day 2: Basics of ...