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Scratch is a new programming environment that kids can use to create their own animated stories, video games, and interactive art -- and share their creations with one another across the Internet.

To create Scratch programs, kids snap together graphical building blocks, each representing a different command or action. Kids learn important computational ideas as they transform images, mix in sound clips and drum beats, and integrate inputs from real-world sensors.

Scratch is designed especially for use at Computer Clubhouses and other after-school centers, empowering young people (ages 8-18) to express themselves fluently and creatively with new technologies.

The NSF-funded Scratch project is a collaboration between the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab and the KIDS research group at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.

Scratch will be available for public release later this year.

Mitchel Resnick  John Maloney  Andres Monroy-Hernandez  Natalie Rusk  Evelyn Eastmond  Karen Brennan  Amon Millner  Eric Rosenbaum  Jay Silver  Amos Blanton  Brian Silverman 


      
papers
  date author title
  2009 Andres Monroy-Hernandez Designing a website for creative learning Proceedings of the Web Science: Society On-Line, Athens, Greece
  2009 Mitchel Resnick, John Maloney, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Natalie Rusk, Evelyn Eastmond, Karen Brennan, Amon Millner, Eric Rosenbaum, Jay Silver, Brian Silverman, Yasmin Kafai Programming for All Communications of the ACM
  2008 Andrés Monroy-Hernández and Mitchel Resnick Empowering kids to create and share programmable media interactions of the ACM
  2008 Rusk, N., Resnick, M., Berg, R., & Pezalla-Granlund, M. New Pathways into Robotics: Strategies for Broadening Participation. Journal of Science Education and Technology
  2007 Resnick, M. Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society. Learning and Leading with Technology
  2007 Sylvan, E. The Sharing of Wonderful Ideas: Influence and Interaction in Online Communities of Creators. PhD dissertation
  2005 Resnick, M. and Silverman, B. Some Reflections on Designing Construction Kits for Kids. Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children conference, Boulder, CO.
  2004 Feinberg, D. Broadcast-based Communication in a Programming Environment for Novices. Masters Thesis.
  2004 Maloney, J., Burd, L., Kafai, Y., Rusk, N., Silverman, B. and Resnick, M. Scratch: A Sneak Preview. Second International Conference on Creating, Connecting, and Collaborating through Computing, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 104-109.
 
 
news
Scratch: Programming for All
Communications of the ACM, November 2009
Pareceria Da Fundacao Bradesco Com O Media Lab (in Portuguese)
Canal Futura, February 2006
 
 
 
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