Week 5- 2

Reflect on your blog thoughts about scratch and Cameron's presentation - Include how you think this might be used in your classroom(check out all of the resources above! and the website www.scratch.mit.edu)

I think scratch is so interesting. It’s way beyond me at this point and I’m not sure how I can truly benefit from using it in a business education class but I know the students will be amazing at it and respond well to using it to learn concepts. Now I need to spend more time playing around with it. I want to learn more about the quiz maker function. I believe students learn best when they teach others the material. Since Scratch is fun the students won’t realize they are learning. I also want to utilize the collaboration tool. Maybe do some kind of pen pal situation with another student collaborating to produce a story about global economics.

Cameron was a great presenter. I could follow him very easily but still felt my own creativity and ideas popping into my head. I could tell he really believed in the value of scratch and teaching all students the basics of programing. As a student I like having quest speakers, and I believe it is a teaching strategy we learned about in my learning theories and cognition class. It was determined that students respond well to a new face.

I like this quote from the Scratch Day goes Global article. “To help them learn to think creatively, reason systematically and work collaboratively” Resnick’s purpose in developing and promoting scratch for students. I think this is an important message to teachers preparing students for their futures.