Scratch

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Tool Snapshot

Price	Free
Learning	Constructionism, Gamification, Connectivisim, Social Learning
Ease of Use	★★✩✩✩
Privacy	★★✩✩✩
Accessibility	★✩✩✩✩
Class Size	Unlimited
ISTE*S	Creative Communicator, Global Collaborator, Knowledge Constructor
COPPA/ FERPA	No COPPA/FERPA policy found. Check with your school IT administrator.

Scratch Overview

On its website, Scratch provides extensive resources, such as step-by-step interactive video tutorials, to guide beginners to get started, allowing users to self-pace their learning. The website also has subpages designated for parents and educators. In addition, there is a forum for new scratchers as well as a featured studio to showcase products designed by users.

Scratch Overview Video

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Scratch & the SAMR Model

Scratch can be used in many different ways. For example, in a math class, you can ask your students to use Scratch to learn about and show their understanding of a coordinate graph.

• Substitution: Students use Scratch to draw a coordinate graph (rather than drawing a graph on paper). 
• Augmentation: Students can use Scratch to create an introductory video to introduce coordinate planes.
• Modification: Students use Scratch to design an interactive coordinate graph game to play. They can share their projects with each other and critique each other’s designs.
• Redefinition: Students use Scratch to create a step-by-step tutorial animation on how to draw a coordinate graph. Users need to interact with the animation, following prompts embedded in it. When they finish all the steps, they produce a coordinate graph.

Learning Activities

ScratchEd, a member of the Scratch family has many inspiring examples organized by grades, content types, curricular area, and language.

Resources

• ScratchED contains hundreds of projects made by users
• Embedding Scratch in the Classroom
• Scratch Lesson Plan
• Starter Projects
• Welcome to Scratch! Get started here! Discussion Forum
• Scratch Design Studio
• Creative Computing Curriculum

How to Use Scratch

For General Users:

• To use the online version, go to https://scratch.mit.edu.
  To use without registering:
  • Select the "Start Creating” button.
• To use with registering, click “Join Scratch” in the upper right corner.
• Fill out the information as shown in the animated GIF below.

• Watch a Getting Started tutorial by Scratch; you can also find many other video tutorials for Scratch on this page

For Educators who wish to set up  their online Scratch classes:

Step 1: Fill out a “Teacher request form” at the address below, and follow the steps as shown in the GIF: https://edtechbooks.org/-expP   

Note that it might take 24 hours to confirm your account.

Step 2: Watch a tutorial video made by Scratch to learn how to set up classrooms step by step.

Also, you can find a written explanation on the teacher account on ScratchWiki, which is a subpage on Scratch website.

Research

Dohn, N. B. (2020). Students’ interest in Scratch coding in lower secondary mathematics. British Journal of Educational Technology, 51(1), 71-83.

Fagerlund, J., Häkkinen, P., Vesisenaho, M., & Viiri, J. (2021). Computational thinking in programming with Scratch in primary schools: A systematic review. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 29(1), 12-28.

Zhang, L., & Nouri, J. (2019). A systematic review of learning computational thinking through Scratch in K-9. Computers & Education, 141, 103607.

Author

This page was created by Lian Duan.