Reflection on Scratch

Learn more about this project
I think that most students would really love to create a project on Scratch. I know the students in my classroom all absolutely love art class, and in this program they can draw their own characters and then make them do whatever they want them to. I would love to introduce to this my classroom and watch the students interact with this program. I am pretty sure it would be hard to drag them away from the computers! I have never done any kind of programming before, so it took a while for me to get used to it, and and as you can see from my video, I have really only learned how to do very basic things. On the scratch website, their are interactive games that people created, and I am looking at those thinking "Wow, those look really complicated! How did that person do that?"
Students need to use a lot of higher order thinking skills in order to create a Scratch project. There is a lot of analyzing going on, while they are learning how to use the program and playing around with what each script makes the characters do. They are also applying the skills they have learned to create and design a unique work of art that is something they can be proud of to share will the rest of their classmates. They are planning, programming, animating and publishing these Scratch projects.