This document discusses the importance of teaching coding and programming skills to students. It promotes the Scratch programming platform as a way to teach coding through creative projects. The document references advocates like President Obama and Neelie Kroes who encourage learning to code. It also cites Mitch Resnick explaining that the goal of Scratch is not just teaching coding but helping students develop as creative thinkers and innovators.

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Scratch community,
coding to learn
EDUCATION 3.0: ICT and e-Learning Course
Universidad de Almería
Jesús Moreno León
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Learn to code
Code.org/stats

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President Obama asks America to learn computer science
Learn to code

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e-Skills for Jobs in Europe
Measuring Progress and Moving Ahead (2014)
Learn to code

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Neelie Kroes, European Commission
Learn how to code! For your future and for Europe
Learn to code

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Coding is boring...
Planning a sequence of understandable
instructions for the computer to perform
a task.
Media UK code. Source: flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/

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…or is it?

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A different approach
“Low Floor, High Ceiling and Wide Walls”
Mitch Resnick. Scratch, programming for all.

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Scratch
Give P's a chance
Mitch Resnick.
“Our goal with Scratch is not
simply to help young people
learn to code.
Our ultimate goal is to help
young people develop as creative
thinkers, makers, and innovators.”

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Scratch
http://scratch.mit.edu/statistics

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Scratch

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Code to learn
Making music with Scratch

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Code to learn
Studio: Best of interactive Art

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Code to learn
Studio: Match projects

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Code to learn
Studio: Physics simulations

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“The majority of our interactions
in 50 years will be with
machines. So let’s teach our kids
to tell them what to do, rather
than the other way around."
Douglas Rushkoff.

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Scratch community,
coding to learn
EDUCATION 3.0: ICT and e-Learning Course
Universidad de Almería
Jesús Moreno León
José Ignacio Huertas Fernández
@programamos
facebook.com/programamos
info@programamos.es
http://programamos.es