I had so much fun when doing Scratch! That’s my first time. I have never heard coding before. At first I have no idea how to make selected sprite move, make sound… I watched the tutorial tips of the website. Thanks for the tutorial steps and finally I work out! For the action, just simply pick any action from the action category. It is funny that when you pick piano, you got the sound of piano, you pick Trumpet, you would have its sound. I was pretty enjoyed in making my sprite move and making music. I was happy because I felt I was a child again when doing scratch! It’s silly, but being silly makes me happy, haha. For my creation, I make made a little music with a bear and a hip-pop guy making action. Not so long, but I was so engaged. I think I’m going to have my students to use Scratch. I think kids would engage in designing their own coding. Making code help students become more creative. They can create various sprites, making various actions or move, creating music and dance, etc. Students could choose different themes. There are bunch of themes including Star wars, Frozen, Moana, Making music and so forth. They could choose whatever they like. In the Sprite library, students could choose from people, animal, letter, and other various patterns. Scratch has recorded various sounds of musical instruments. We would find surprise in the sprite, action, and sonund… library. I’m sure kids would have fun in making their codes. Coding is really important to students. Learning how to program early in life help students gain a deeper and more complete understanding of the logic and advanced thinking behind programing or coding. It influences children’s development of their brain. We living in a digital world and our kids born in to a digital world. Learning programing in a young age help kids building integral thinking and problem solving skills, which are important for their future successes.
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