What is ScratchJr?
ScratchJr is an entry-level programming language that allows 5-7 year-old children to create their interactive stories and games. The children use the graphical building blocks so that the role of the program moving, jumping, dancing, singing. Children can use the drawing editor to draw their favorite character, use a microphone to record your own voice, with the camera adding your own pictures. Finally, the method blocks combined into a program, so that their role is moving.
Inspiration ScratchJr this software from Scratch. In the world there are several children (over 8 years old) Millions of use Scratch, is a very popular programming language. The ScratchJr the redesigned user interface and programming languages, make it more suitable for young children, in particular, focus on the functional design more in line with their cognitive, personal, social and emotional development.
Creating ScratchJr, we redesigned the interface and programming languages make more suitable for younger children.
You can then iPad or Android tablet download for free to ScratchJr;
Why create ScratchJr?
Programming is an essential accomplishment of a new era, as the writing make your organizational skills, communication skills changed for the better, as the programming is the same. In the past, the popularity of programming is difficult, but we believe that everyone should have such a power, like writing the same.
When young children ScratchJr, they are not just a computer and interactive, but also think through the computer to learn how to create and express themselves. From this process, the children also learned problem-solving, creative design, the ability to think logically, which is to help them in the future success of the foundation. At the same time, they make sense, use Mathematics motivated cases, language, capacity development will be faster. ScratchJr hope the children learn more than just the program code, also encodes to learn more from the more;
Who created the ScratchJr?
ScratchJr is a collaborative development project, developers have the technology (DevTech) at Tufts University, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Research and Development department of human research team (the leader Marina Umaschi Bers, contributors have Amanda Strawhacker, Claire Caine, Louise Flannery, Elizabeth Kazakoff, Dylan Portelance), Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT media Lab (the leader Mitchel Resnick, contributors have Chris Garrity, Tim Mickel, Carl Bowman, Champika Fernando, Natalie Rusk, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Chris Graves) , Playful Invention company (the leader Paula Bont & aacute and Brian Silverman, contributors have Jack Geddes, Adrian Gabriel).
ScratchJr the Android version of Two Sigma (leader is Mark Roth, a contributor to Kevin Hu) and Benesse the company to achieve.
HvingtQuatre image by the Company (the leader Julien Gelifier and Adrien Valesa), Sarah Thomson, Peter Mueller, Jillian Lombardi established by the film Paula Aguilera MIT Media Lab produced. We also thank all those who participate during the test, especially Sergio Antolinez, Vandendaele Didier and Sjoerd Dirk Meijer.