To create programs in Scratch, you simply drop "sprites" onto a canvas. You can then attach actions to the sprites in sequence, making them move, change color, bounce off other objects on the ...

"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 ...

Block-Based Coding Demonstration Set for Scratch ($39.99): A classroom set with 42 magnetic coding blocks designed to help teachers model Scratch scripts in a visual, reusable format.

Scratch 3.0 includes “extensions”—extra collections of coding blocks—that are designed to broaden the range of what students can create with Scratch, to make sure that it connects with the wide ...

The phrase "Learn to Program One Card at a Time" plays the role of subtitle and friendly invitation from Scratch Coding Cards, a colorful collection of activities that introduce children to creative ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rusk hopes to cultivate these online communities by allowing them to explore programming projects specific to their hobbies in music, arts and games. It is their theory that by allowing students to ...