ScratchJr Coding Cards
Creative Coding Activities
$46.36
- Cards
75 pages
- Release Date
3 July 2018
Summary
The ScratchJr Coding Cards are a deck of 75 activity cards covering fun and exciting projects designed to educate young children with the visual programming language, ScratchJr.
ScratchJr is a free, introductory computer programming language that runs on iPads, Android tablets, Amazon tablets, and Chromebooks. Derived from Scratch, the wildly popular programming language used by millions of kids worldwide, ScratchJr helps even younger children (5 to 7 years old) create their own playf…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781593278991 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1593278993 |
| Author: | Marina Umaschi Bers, Amanda Sullivan |
| Publisher: | No Starch Press,US |
| Imprint: | No Starch Press,US |
| Format: | Cards |
| Number of Pages: | 75 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 726g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 138mm x 189mm |
| Audience Age: | 5-9 |
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Marina Umaschi Bers
About the Authors
Dr. Marina Umaschi Bers is the co-creator of the widely-popular programming language, ScratchJr. She is a professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development and adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University. She also heads the Developmental Technologies (DevTech) Research group, where she studies innovative ways to promote positive childhood development through new learning technologies.
Additionally, she created KIBO, a robotics platform for children aged 4 to 7, which allows young learners to develop programming and engineering skills without screens or keyboards. Dr. Bers is also the director of the graduate Early Childhood Technology certificate program at Tufts University. Her approach, which conceives coding as a literacy of the 21st century, can be found in her book Coding as a Playground: Programming and Computational Thinking in the Early Childhood Classroom.
Dr. Amanda Sullivan is a postdoctoral associate in the Developmental Technologies (DevTech) research group and associate director of the graduate Early Childhood Technology certificate program at Tufts University. Her research focuses on gender issues and technology.
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