Scratch

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Designed at the MIT Media Lab, Scratch is a simple programming language designed for creating and sharing interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art. Students learn programming concepts that can be applied to any programming language. Students as young as eight years old can get started having fun in Scratch, yet there is enough complexity and variety to challenge secondary students.

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ScratchEd

rss url="http://scratch.mit.edu/feeds/getFeaturedProjects" link="true" description="true" number="5" enclosure="true" [|Mr. Symonds High School Scratch Class] Our high schoolers meet once a week in the computer lab to work with Scratch. I have had to take typical Scratch assignments and add complexity and critical thinking aspects to make them appropriate for high school age students. Some of my students have surpassed my skills with Scratch. While the rest of us work with simple video games in the Spring, our advanced students will be working with [|Alice], a more advanced drag and drop programming environment.