What is scratch?

What is scratch? 

During the lessons we have done a lot of things on Scratch.
Scratch is an object-orientated, visual programming language, developed by the MIT.
The language, scratch is using, is perfect for children if they want to create animations, games, music, artsprojects, etc. It is not only used by children, parents, students, teachers and even scholars use it too. It provides a stepping stone to the more advanced world of computer programming. It is even possible to use it for educational and entertainment constructionist purposes from math.

Scratch is especially designed for children from the age of 8 until 16 years old but it is used by people of all ages. Millions of people are creating scratch projects in a wide variety of settings, including homes, schools, museums, libraries and community centers.
Scratch is used in more than 150 countries all over the world and it is available in more than 40 different languages. 

Scratch is a very interesting program, especially for my as a future primary school teacher. I can make a lot of different stories with it, which is interesting and fun for the children to apply learning material. It is also very nice for the children themselves because they can easily make a story themselves which is not only a creative process but they can also learn from it. 


They learn how to work with a computer, a program and they also learn how to become independent on a certain way. Like it is been said in the beginning, scratch can also be used during math class. In this case it is nice to offer learning material and theoretical stuff to the children in a nice way. Children won't even realise that they are studying. 

I am a fan of scratch and i will use it during my carrier as a teacher! 



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