In this episode, Jeff sits down with Kasia Chmielinski to learn how Scratch is being used in over 150 countries in more than 40 languages. Join Jeff, Rob Pennington, Kevin Donatello, and Sam Patterson as we dive into the Hour of Code and Beyond on TeacherCast Podcast 124.
About Company
Scratch is a programming language and an online community where children can program and share interactive media such as stories, games, and animation with people from all over the world. As children create with Scratch, they learn to think creatively, work collaboratively, and reason systematically.
Millions of people are creating Scratch projects in a wide variety of settings, including homes, schools, museums, libraries, and community centers. To date, 9M Scratchers have shared over 12M projects to the online community.
Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge. You can read more about Scratch here: scratch.mit.edu/about
About Scratch
Scratch is a programming language and an online community where children can program and share interactive media such as stories, games, and animation with people from all over the world. As children create with Scratch, they learn to think creatively, work collaboratively, and reason systematically. Scratch is designed and maintained by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.
Links of interest
Scratch site: scratch.mit.edu
HOC landing page: scratch.mit.edu/hoc
WBB Scratch Studio: h ttps://scratch.mit.edu/studios/1672166/
Cartoon Network WBB landing page: cartoonnetwork.com/scratch
Scratch Twitter account: @Scratch
Scratch Facebook account: F acebook.com/scratchteam
Scratch Foundation site: scratchfoundation.org
Recent BRIGHT article by Mres: A Different Approach to Coding
YouTube Videos of Interest
Scratch Overview: h ttps://vimeo.com/scratchedteam/scratch20
What is Scratch? h ttps://vimeo.com/142647231
Creative Thinking Overview & History h ttps://vimeo.com/143620419
WBB Overview: h ttps://vimeo.com/144633359 ; https://youtu.be/_Jlg5e8QWq0
WBB HideandSeek Tutorial: h ttps://vimeo.com/141988191
Additional:
WBB BearStack Tutorial: h ttps://vimeo.com/llk/bearstory
WBB Hoops Tutorial: https://vimeo.com/144280014
About our Guest
Kasia Chmielinski works at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA, as the Product Lead for Scratch. Scratch (scratch.mit.edu) is a free visual programming language that engages youth in imaginative learning experiences to create games, animations and stories. At MIT, Kasia is responsible for defining, designing, and managing the future roadmap of the Scratch project.
Prior to Scratch, Kasia was a founding member of the startup Zestfinance, and before that, a product communications manager at Google. Kasia hails from Boston, but dabbled in architecture and engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong before graduating with a degree in physics from Harvard University. When not in front of a whiteboard or a keyboard, Kasia can be found either tutoring local students in mathematics or upon a bicycle, cycling uncomfortablylong distances.
Kasia can be found on Scratch as @petrichord, and on Twitter as @kaschm.
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