Today we looked at SCRATCH. This is a software program used to create interactive games. The program itself is cool and doesn’t seem too terribly difficult to use, but I wonder about its use in the classroom. What is created seems more suited for lower grades as opposed to middle & upper grades. At first glance, I do not know that this particular tool can address higher order thinking skills. I am sure it is something that the students would enjoy working with, but again, I just don’t know how I would incorporate it into a Lit classroom. While teaching middle school Language Arts, SCRATCH could be used to demonstrate understanding of grammar rules. I am sure many different games could be created to reinforce these concepts. I will just have to give this a lot of thought and see what I come up with (yes, I know, a dangling preposition. Perhaps I will have to use SCRATCH to create a game to teach students not to do this in their writing).
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