2 Comments on “Session 5”

1. msradden Says:
   November 2nd, 2009 at 5:39 am

   WOW I loved this workshop! I had Scratch (ages 7 and up) installed on every computer here at Renaissance, so although I knew it was something I wanted our kids to be using, I needed to learn in more detail what kinds of activities they could be doing – and there are so many possibilities!
   Professor Mitchell Resnick, founder of the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at MIT’s Media Lab, presented examples of some games, animations, and projects that kids have done, both in and out of school. What is powerful is the ability for them to Share their creations and get feedback from the world. Kids connect and collaborate on projects in the Scratch community web site. See media.mit.edu, scratched.media.mit.edu, and workshops.scratch.mit.edu. Kids use computational and math skills, but they are also thinking creatively, collaboratively, and critically, all 21st century skills.
   I am excited to get teachers to use it in their classrooms – the very next day, Ms. Pers had come up with a project fo her 3rd grade class!

2. Josh McGuire Says:
   November 8th, 2009 at 6:25 pm

   I’m all for science and math and technology and I’d like to pretend that I was smart enough to understand this one but it spiraled into a heady conversation about middle and high school integration and there were a lot of acronyms that I had no idea of. I looked at Jane at one point and she looked as lost as I did. Moreover, the seminar was titled “Is Preschool too early for STEM education” I think it may have been a typo.
   Here is the STEM website though
   http://k12s.phast.umass.edu/stem/

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