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10 Things I learnedfrom creating an after school Scratch club
!PK Shiu @pks
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Background
• Grade 1 to 6 (age 7 to 12)
• One hour each week October to May
• 2/3 Scratch, 1/3 LEGO WeDo
• drama club, dance, cheerleading, sports, chess, photography, cooking
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#1 Computing Literacy
• Mouse and keyboard skills
• Not age dependent
• low priority for technology
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Kick Starting
• “all about me” project
• use consistent vocabularyscript, block, sprite, cut, paste
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#2 Gender Bias
• Parent bias
• Marketing problem
• Avoid: “programming, computer, robot, LEGO”
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Neutral Words
• ...create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art
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#3 Skills
• Classroom Management is more important than Scratch knowledge
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• 1st graders attention span
• 3rd graders collaborate, listen
• Solution: creative pairing of students
#4 Mixed Age is Hard
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#5 Structure
• 16 students, 2 teachers
• sit ( sometimes work ) in pairs
• horseshoe (circle) seating
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Curriculum
• Projects run multiple weeks
• Example, hand out, challenge, show and tell
• Design presentation
• Big year end project
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Sharing
• Saving vs sharing
• Scratch site vs local file storage
• Scratch 2.0
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#6 Returning Students
• “Perfectionist”: repeat last year project, but better
• or work on self directed projects
• Volunteer helpers!
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What students Need
• Encouragement and Appreciation - feedback
• Minimal scaffolding
• Peer instruction
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#7 Documentation
• Take pictures and videos
• Blog (embedding)
• Email update
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#8 Creativity
• Examples:
• How my parents met
• 200 questions
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Creativity
• Examples:
• Single motor car
• Perpetual motion machine
• Joystick design
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#9 Surprises
• Parents interest: “Did my son showed you the projects WE worked on at HOME”
• Teachers interest: “I didn’t know we do Scratch here!”
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Video available here: http://vimeo.com/33369803
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#10 Worth It?
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Thank You!
• PK Shiu
• @pks