2018 - cccSkerries

Learnovation 2018: “I want to be augmented, not replaced!”

Post author:Sabine McKenna, cccSkerries
Post published:October 5, 2018
Post category:cccSkerries Creativity / Tools Digital Future Digital Thoughts

Notes and Thoughts from the Learnovation 2018 Conference, Croke Park, Dublin, 3 October 2018 For what future am I preparing the participants of my creative computing classes? My vision is…

Mitch Resnick, MIT MediaLab Lifelong Kindergarten Group

Scratch – the Coding Platform for Young People with Inbuilt Creativity and …. Community!

Post author:Sabine McKenna, cccSkerries
Post published:August 9, 2018
Post category:cccSkerries Creativity / Tools Digital Thoughts News Scratch

A quick report from the International Scratch Conference: “The Next Generation” – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 2018

Ciarán and Sabine in Cambridge & Boston, Mass.

We both made the trip across the Atlantic to experience Scratch where it is created… in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Lifelong Kindergarten Group, led by Mitchel Resnick, at the MIT Media Lab has been creating and developing Scratch since 2003. We got to meet lots of them at the conference, as well as many of the 600 other educators. There were workshops and keynotes, an exhibition and lots of great opportunities to talk to others using Scratch. Most were educators (lots of primary school teachers, a good few secondary school teachers, more librarians than I would have expected). The Scratch Team were very much there as well, always available for a chat and very engaging and open to all.

I brought home so many great ideas that I can just scratch (oops) the surface here. The conference will definitely influence the cccSkerries coding classes for the next 2 years, until Scratch 2020! Still, here are a few thoughts. (more…)