Location: Goochland County Schools School Board Office
Training Room, 2938 River Road West, Goochland, VA 23063 (Building
I)
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Who: Teachers from CVC Consortium Schools in Central
Virginia
When: Saturday, November 6 10AM-3:30 PM
This hands-on learning event for teachers will explore
constructionist learning using Scratch - a free software application
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA).
Scratch is used throughout the world to ignite learning with
students aged 8 through 21!
What student in school today doesn't like to create games and
animations? How much time do students in your schools have for
creating?
We'll explore the current trends behind participatory culture
with re-mixing and the sharing of intellectual property. You'll
bring your own laptop and we'll begin creating our own Scratch
projects. Scratch is ideal in grades 3-10 for teaching the essential
twenty-first century skills of problem-solving and creativity.
Scratch combines text, visual art, sound and music, and the logic of
programming together in one environment.
Leave empowered to have your students begin crafting multimedia
projects, games, and more with Scratch. To learn more about Scratch
and the community of international educators behind it, visit
http://scratch.mit.edu/
This session will be led by John Hendron, author
of RSS for Educators: Blogs, Podcasts, and Wikis in the
Classroom, an experienced practitioner of using Scratch in K-12
education. The session will be co-facilitated by Bea Cantor,
an Apple Distinguished Educator and Google Certified Teacher.
This session is free, but space is limited to 15 participants.
Teachers who successfully complete a Scratch project with
students in their schools will receive a $200 stipend.
Please join us for an opportunity to develop students'
twenty-first century skills, to work in a creative medium that
encourages inventive thinking, and to take advantage of a
constructionist approach to learning. From our experience,
students love working in Scratch and our teachers have used it to
promote SOL in English, mathematics, science, and social studies,
and art! Come to create, re-create, and we'll even promise
you'll have fun.
