Scratch and other games programming at the Powerhouse Museum
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The document discusses MIT Scratch as a public program platform for creative and collaborative learning. It describes Scratch as having wide walls, low floors, and high ceilings to allow learning by doing before reading. Performance and competence are prioritized over strict guidance.
Scratch and other games programming at the Powerhouse Museum
- 1. MIT Scratch as a public program platform. Powerhouse Museum Thinkspace Peter Mahony peterm@phm.gov.au
- 2. think creatively reason systematically work collaboratively http://scratch.mit.edu/About_Scratch
- 3. Wide walls. Low floor. High ceiling. http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/Scratch-CACM-final.pdf
- 4. Performance before competence: learn by doing, then read. James Paul Gee Gee, James Paul. Video Games: What they can teach us about audience engagement. Nieman Reports. Summer, 2010.
- 5. L E A R N I N G A M P L I F I E D
- 6. School groups Children & family People with a disability Professional learning Corporate Venue hire
- 7. Children & family School holidays Special events eg SBS After school
- 8. School holidays 50 min & full day Minecraft Scratch ATYP Arduino
- 10. Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less Mobiles and Apps Tablet Computing http://k12.wiki.nmc.org/file/view/2012-Horizon.K12-Preview.pdf
- 11. Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years Game-Based Learning Personal Learning Environments http://k12.wiki.nmc.org/file/view/2012-Horizon.K12-Preview.pdf
- 12. Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years Augmented Reality Natural User Interfaces http://k12.wiki.nmc.org/file/view/2012-Horizon.K12-Preview.pdf
- 13. Key trends work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to. 4/6 http://k12.wiki.nmc.org/file/view/2012-Horizon.K12-Preview.pdf
- 14. Significant Challenges Learning takes place outside the walls of the classroom. 6/6 http://k12.wiki.nmc.org/file/view/2012-Horizon.K12-Preview.pdf
- 15. Pros Free Works on any machine Open source Community Links to any theme, title, author, etc Wide walls, low floor, high ceiling
- 16. Cons Computer science Needs programming Comments need monitoring