Teaching kids maths, programming and science with Scratch: a personal experience

Feb18Wed

Teaching kids maths, programming and science with Scratch: a personal experience

Wed, 18/02/2015 - 12:00 to 13:00

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Speaker: 
Dr. Alexander Belyaev
Affiliation: 
Heriot-Watt University
Synopsis: 

Scratch is a very friendly visual programming language developed by MIT Media Lab. It is perfect for making simple games and animations. In addition it is a great tool to support teaching school-level maths and programming and, together with a special sensor board (picoboard), some science topics related to electrical engineering.

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