Marina Umaschi Bers
Author of The Official ScratchJr Book: Help Your Kids Learn to Code
About the Author
Marina Umaschi Bers is Professor and Chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science. She directs the interdisciplinary DevTech Research Group.
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The Official ScratchJr Book: Help Your Kids Learn… by Marina Umaschi Bers
The Official ScratchJr Book is a companion to the free app (Scratch) and makes coding easy and fun young children (ages 5+). Kids learn to program by connecting blocks of code to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. Each chapter includes several activities that build on one another, culminating in a fun final project. These hands-on activities help kids develop computational-thinking, problem-solving, and design skills.
Here's what I like about The Official ScratchJr. Book:
It targets a very young audience - ages 5 and up
It can be useful for parents and teachers and librarians - especially those who might find coding to be intimidating
Unlike the Hour of Code (which I love and have used as a resource for library programming), The Official ScratchJr Book focuses more on inspiring creativity than learning the nuts and bolts of logical thinking
The above statement notwithstanding, it still can be used to learn the nuts and bolts of simple coding and logical thinking
If your kids are looking for a follow up to the Frozen Hour of Code project, "Code with Anna and Elsa," The Official ScratchJr Book is probably a good place to start (if you have a tablet that can run the ScratchJr app)
More at http://shelf-employed.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-official-scratch-jr-book-review.h...… (more)
It targets a very young audience - ages 5 and up
It can be useful for parents and teachers and librarians - especially those who might find coding to be intimidating
Unlike the Hour of Code (which I love and have used as a resource for library programming), The Official ScratchJr Book focuses more on inspiring creativity than learning the nuts and bolts of logical thinking
The above statement notwithstanding, it still can be used to learn the nuts and bolts of simple coding and logical thinking
If your kids are looking for a follow up to the Frozen Hour of Code project, "Code with Anna and Elsa," The Official ScratchJr Book is probably a good place to start (if you have a tablet that can run the ScratchJr app)
More at http://shelf-employed.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-official-scratch-jr-book-review.h...… (more)
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