Learning Computing through Creating and Connecting

Author

Brennan, K.

Author_Institution

Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

46

Issue

9

fYear

2013

fDate

41518

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

59

Abstract

Despite increased cultural awareness of computing, programming remains inaccessible to many young people. In response to this challenge, MIT Media Lab researchers are developing Scratch, which combines an authoring environment for interactive media projects with an online platform for sharing those projects. The first Web extra at http://youtu.be/2XiOK4OzAaE is a video overview of Scratch and ScratchEd, showing the authoring environment for interactive media projects as well as the sharing platform. The second Web extra at http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tip_bar=getStarted helps visitors get started on their first Scratch activity where they can experience its authoring and sharing environments.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; cultural aspects; interactive systems; multimedia computing; social networking (online); MIT media lab researchers; Web extra; authoring environment; cultural awareness; developing scratch; interactive media projects; learning computing; online platform; video overview; Authoring systems; Computer languages; Computer science education; Educational institutions; Programming; Scratch; ScratchEd; computing education;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2013.229

Filename

6560049