Samantha Morra is a New Jersey educator with 20 years of experience who is passionate about technology and its potential to transform education. She is a Google Certified Teacher and instructor who presents on topics like coding using Scratch and computational thinking. The document discusses Scratch as a tool to help students learn to code and create their own interactive stories and games while developing important 21st century skills.

1. Samantha Morra
@sammorra
About.Me
https://goo.gl/IuVJgt
Learn to Code
Code to Learn
Learn to Code
Code to Learn

2. Samantha Morra, Presenter
@sammorra
http://samanthamorra.com/
About.Me
Samantha Morra is a NJ educator with 20 years experience in
public education. She is also a Google Certified Teacher and
has presented at the state and national level. She is an
instructor and consultant and is passionate about technology
and its potential to transform education.

3. Scratch
“Learn to Code. Code to Learn.”
- Mitch Resnick
Co-founder and Creator of MIT’s Scratch

4. How does
this make
you feel?

6. Teachers are being asked to
teach with tools that did not
exist when they were in school.

7. Get coding people: It's
the new Mandarin, and
it's not just children who
can learn how to do it

8. World Language
or
The Arts

9. **
No one who
ever bought
a drill
wanted a
drill.
They wanted
a hole.
-Perry Marshall
http://goo.gl/2UQ7e0
https://twitter.com/perrymarshall/status/511933290631028737

11. Why?

12. Bloom's Taxonomy
Old Version New Version
http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm

13. Bloom’s
Taxonomy
(Revised by
Lorin Anderson)

14. SAMR Model
A framework, developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, to help educators understand the place of
technology in the context of learning and education. http://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog/

16. I wanted to create an
active learning environment
that promoted self-directed,
passionate,
autonomous learners
who desired mastery.

17. Scratch

18. Students become
creators of content
for the web,
not just consumers.

19. Authoring
is
active,
dynamic,
community building,
and radically democratic

20. What does it mean to create?
Critical Thinking
Multiple Representations
Unexpected Combinations
Unexpected Results

21. What does it mean to create?
Metacognition
How did I get stuck?
How did I get unstuck?
Understanding how I learn

22. Code.org

23. Code Academy

24. Trinket

25. Scratch
Scratch

26. Scratch is inspired by the idea of a mashup.
A mashup is a mixture or fusion of different
elements
This is Scratch

27. With Scratch, you can program your own interactive
stories, games, and animations — and share your
creations with others in the online community.
Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively,
reason systematically, and work collaboratively —
essential skills for life in the 21st century.
Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at
the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge.

30. Scratch
Scratch

31. Words to
Know
Sprite
Stage
Script
Costume

32. Scratch Cards
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-
Fyruaqd3MqdExkZlJhRzc5dlk/view?usp=sha
ring

33. Scratch
https://scratch.mit.edu/help/cards/

34. What does it mean to create?
Critical Thinking
Multiple Representations
Unexpected Combinations
Unexpected Results
Metacognition
How did I get stuck?
How did I get unstuck?
Understanding how I learn
This is Design Thinking.
Think about thinking and learn about learning.

35. What does it mean to create?
This is Design Thinking.
Think about thinking and learn about learning.

36. One of the greatest things
we can do as teachers is
give students good
foundation and then stand
back and see what they can
create.

37. Samantha Morra
@sammorra
About.Me
https://goo.gl/IuVJgt
Learn to Code
Code to Learn