This week, I want to share a video from Ted. This video can vividly show how Scratch could be easily created by people with interactive stories and games and animations.
There is no doubt that young people are very comfortable and familiar browsing and chatting and texting and gaming. But that doesn't really make you fluent. So young people today have lots of experience and lots of familiarity with interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating with new technologies and expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write with new technologies.
Coding isn't just for computer whizzes, says Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab -- it's for everyone. In a fun, demon-filled talk Resnick outlines the benefits of teaching kids to code, so they can do more than just use new tech toys but also create them.
From the web link, Mitch will share his view about how to teach kids to code through Scratch. And I would like to know your perspectives about coding:
There is no doubt that young people are very comfortable and familiar browsing and chatting and texting and gaming. But that doesn't really make you fluent. So young people today have lots of experience and lots of familiarity with interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating with new technologies and expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write with new technologies.
Coding isn't just for computer whizzes, says Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab -- it's for everyone. In a fun, demon-filled talk Resnick outlines the benefits of teaching kids to code, so they can do more than just use new tech toys but also create them.
From the web link, Mitch will share his view about how to teach kids to code through Scratch. And I would like to know your perspectives about coding:
- Do you think everybody needs learning to code? Especially for kids.
- When thinking of coding, do you think it is a narrow skill with special mathematical skills and technical background that can code?
- After watching this video, do you change your mind about the last two questions?
If the video can not show, please click the web link:https://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code/transcript#t-76550
Looking forward to hearing your comments!
Hi Zoe,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing such an amazing TED with us. I like it so much! When I was reading your former blog, I indeed have the questions like Does it really matter to let students learn code? How to make them learn to code for class ime is so limited? Does Scratch can really help students in learning? In what ways? But after watching this TED, I made all of my concerns go away. Like Mitch Resnick said in his presentation, when students are learning to code, they are coding to learn, and it opens up for them to learn many other things, makes students' learning more motived and meanigful, and enables them to find a new way to express themselves.
Yes. Actually I have the same problem when I encounted this topic so I found the answer through this video and hope it will also help others to clarified the answer~
DeleteHi Zoe,
ReplyDeleteUsing Scratch to learn some coding? How amazing! Oh my, Those Mother’s Day Card melted my heart and watching the audiences playing the Hungry Bat 2 remix made me laugh out loud. Should everyone learn to code? No necessary. But it’s a way and a good way to express yourself, to show somebody your feelings and ideas. learn through coding, and coding to learn. Learning in a way which is meaningful and motivating for you, that’s the best thing.
Jie Yi
yes！ Thank you very appreciate my topic~ hope you will enjoy that!
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