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Tag: Scratch

Making Meaningful Games: Firefighter Firefight

A programming and game design team of Jr. High Students at the Engineer Your Passion Workshop created a game to highlight the Cranberry Community Chest Volunteer Firefighter Initiative. The students were led by StormC, the Grow a Generation Research Fellow who specializing in developing Scratch Programming opportunities to make meaningful projects. Press the green flag and …

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Hour of Code
Coming to a Library, School, or Computer Near You!

Code.org created something ingenious. The plethora of learn it yourself fun game-like software design programs have created this bite-sized introductions and made it available for free on their website the week of December 8-14. How do you take part? Librarians from Beaver County attended an inservice last week and learned all about Scratch Programming – …

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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2014/11/23/hour-of-code-coming-to-a-library-school-or-computer-near-you/

Mitchel Resnick: Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society

  What does it take to inspire sustained interest in science and inquiry? On Thursday, February 28, 2013, the LRDC (Learning Research and Development Center) of the University of Pittsburgh opened their first lecture of the 50th Anniversary Distinguished Speaker Series with the question.  Dr. Resnick was introduced by Chris Schunn of the LRDC who …

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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/03/03/mitchel-resnick-sowing-the-seeds-for-a-more-creative-society/

Scratch Programming and 3rd Grade Common Core

One of my part time hats includes serving as the Baden Academy Media Lab Director.  I have the extreme pleasure of working with a number of very gifted 2nd and 3rd graders and a spectacular teaching staff. The twelve media lab students I see twice a week have just completed a four week unit on …

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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/02/18/scratch-programming-and-3rd-grade-common-core/