Provide a brief tutorial on Scratch interface and basic features (can even use the built in ones through Scratch). Hands-on activity: Create a simple Scratch project to move a sprite. Day 2: Basics of ...

"So most programs that introduce coding in fourth grade and up, it's great, but they are coming kind of late to the party," she says. The project was funded by a $1.3 million grant from the ...

The Powerpuff Girls are learning code. As part of its collaboration with Scratch, a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, Cartoon Network is set to air two coding-themed ...

These core ideas are key to the aim of the Scratch project to teach coding as a new kind of literacy. "Just as with traditional literacy, it's important to learn to read, but it's also important ...

On January 2, our group at the MIT Media Lab introduced a new generation of Scratch, called Scratch 3.0. Much has changed since we introduced the first generation of our Scratch programming language ...

Mitch Resnik, the creator of the super-simple Scratch programming language and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, gave a TEDx talk about the value of coding and computer ...

Perhaps the only online coding community that could compete with Scratch for kids’ attention is Minecraft, which aims to provide kids with a similar sense interest- and peer-based exploration.