Ten Years of SCRATCH in the Applied Linguistics Classroom: Student Teachers Evaluating the Program’s Modifications from SCRATCH 1.4 to 3.0 (81978)
Session Chair: Clarisa G Quan
Saturday, 15 June 2024 13:40
Session: Session 3
Room: Salle 269
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
For over 10 years, undergraduate and graduate students and student teachers taking LN400/500 Applied Linguistics at the University of Guam were required to design SCRATCH projects that they had to present at the university-sponsored Annual Regional Language Arts Conference, and that they could actually use in their teaching primary, middle school, or high school students. SCRATCH is a free downloadable program from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), whose programmers have released newer versions that address older coding issues. This presentation will discuss how the various versions of SCRATCH, (i.e., Scratch 1.4 that students used from 2010 to 2012; Scratch 2.0 that they utilized from 2013 to 2018, and its latest version, 3.0, that students used in 2019, 2022 and 2023) - affected the quality of students’ projects and triggered their comments about the program’s user-friendliness, usefulness, and and yes, bugs that they feel still have to be addressed. Student Suggestions for improving the program will also be included.
Authors:
Clarisa G Quan, University of Guam, Guam
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Clarisa G Quan is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at University of Guam in Guam (USA)
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