Scratch Conference 2022

Scratchis the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations. Scratch is designed, developed, and moderated by theScratch Foundation, a nonprofit organization.

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Scratch Conference 2022: What Will You Create?

ENGLISH | <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-conferencia-scratch-2022-espanol-tickets-356346420737https://www.eventbrite.com/e/356346420737" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ESPAÑOL </a>| <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biglietti-la-scratch-conference-2022-italiano-356346671487" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ITALIANO </a>| <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conferencia-scratch-2022-portugues-tickets-356347183017" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">PORTUGUÊS</a>Building on the success of Scratch&#x27;s first global, virtual conference for educators last year, the Scratch Foundation is excited to present Scratch Conference 2022: What Will You Create? Participate in a day of imagining, creating, and sharing with educators from around the world. Watch livestream sessions, explore project ideas, and share stories with others. Sessions will include simultaneous live interpretation to Spanish and Portuguese as well as ASL. Sessions will be recorded and available on-demand as well with additional language interpretation in a selection of sessions for Italian, French, Japanese and Hindi.In the days leading up to the event, you will have opportunities to share videos and projects online, highlighting how you and your learners have been using Scratch to create, connect, and learn. The conference is available free of charge. Of course, Scratch Foundation does welcome donations at all levels. Sponsorship opportunities are available as well.Additional details will be shared as the conference nears and can be found on the conference website: <a href="https://www.scratchfoundation.org/scratch-conference" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.scratchfoundation.org/scratch-conference</a>If you have any questions, please email us at conference@scratch.mit.edu ________________<h3>Conference Agenda</h3>Opening Session 9am - 10:15am ETWelcome: What Will You Create?The opening ceremony will celebrate Scratch and ScratchJr educators around the world with special messages from Scratch Foundation members and supporters. Presenters: Carolina Rodeghiero (BCLN), Francisco Cervantes (Scratch Foundation), Ryan Mouser (Scratch Foundation), Chris Garrity (Product Manager), Christan Balch (Scratch Foundation), Mitch Resnick (MIT Media Lab), Shawna Young (Scratch Foundation), Natalie Rusk (MIT Media Lab)Social Break 1 10:15am - 10:30am ETSay Hello to the Scratch Team (English, Spanish, Portuguese) Take 15 minutes to come chat with the Scratch Team and get to know conference participants from around the world!Create &amp; Connect 1 10:30am - 11:30am ETCreative Coding with a CauseIn today’s diverse classrooms, educators must embrace the cultural identities of the students they teach. In this interactive discussion, we will open a useful dialogue that seeks to inform creative ways Scratch can be used to implement culturally responsive teaching practices that motivates students to code with a cause. Let’s discuss the best way to impact ALL students!Presenters: Claudia Perfecto (Instituto Lomas del Real), Michelle Swensson (Los Angeles Unified School District), Jean Marie Ishimwe (YVC &amp; Nawezaa), Victor Hicks (Coding with Culture), Allen Antoine (Rice University Office of STEM Engagement)Getting Started with Scratch, Together!Making Scratch projects is fun, but making Scratch projects together is even more fun! Whether you are completely new to Scratch or you have some experience, join us for this hands-on, collaborative, and playful workshop open to everyone.First, facilitators will collaboratively create a Scratch project and offer some guidance to help people getting started. Then, everyone will be invited to create their own project and add it to a studio. Finally, facilitators will highlight, see inside, and celebrate some of the projects shared by the participants. The workshop will be in English but participants will be able to ask questions and interact via chat in multiple languages.If you don&#x27;t have a Scratch account already, please try to create one before the session. Just click &quot;Join&quot; on the Scratch home page. You’ll need to respond to a few questions, and provide an email address. It takes just a couple minutes, and it’s totally free!Presenters: Carmelo Presicce (MIT Lifelong Kindergarten), João Adriano Freitas (Brazilian Creative Learning Network), Fabiana Lorenzi (BCLN), Debbie Berlin (The STEAM Center at Dynamic Wellness (DC Health and Wellness (501c3)), Coach Newton Antoniuk (Panucation), Jenny Fisher (CoderDojo), Lily Gabaree (MIT Media Lab), Francisco Jurado Gálvez (Delegación de Educación Junta de Andalucía), Rupal Jain (Lifelong Kindergarten), Augusto Chioccariello (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Vero Estrada (Edukreativos), Ayushi Sharma (Think Gudd Foundation)Building on the Strengths of Diverse Learners with Scratch / Aprovechando las fortalezas de los aprendedores diversos con ScratchChildren with diverse abilities, language repertoires, and experiences are using Scratch to share their stories, engage with communities, and take action for a better world. In this session, conducted mostly in Spanish, learn from projects that operate around the world and which each build on the strengths and resources of learners – including migrants, refugees, and bi/multilingual children, children with autism, visual impairments, and other disabilities – to support computational thinking, computational literacies, expression, and subject area learning.Presenters: Sara Vogel New York University, Roger Olivella Sistema THEAD, Digital Literacy to Change the World, Lauren Berrios (White plains City School District), Eduard Muntaner Perich (UdiGitalEdu / University og Girona)STEM Mindset and its Myriad Challenges: An Indian PerspectiveAt the heart of our intervention in Secondary Schools are adolescent girls and ensuring their access to education, especially STEM fields. Given the glass ceiling, our work does not center around just coding, but explorations of self, gender, computational thinking, and career. Coding is one means to build what we call a STEM mindset, where the focus is not only on the doing but is more intentional on the thinking and the mindset building that helps reduce access barriers.Presenters: Sameera Sameera (Quest Alliance) Amala Domichen (Quest Alliance) Rishi Mazumdar (Quest Alliance)Create &amp; Connect 2 11:35am - 12:35pm ETWaves of Kindness: Building a Caring Community of Creative LearnersInspired by the Scratch Waves of Kindness Scratch Foundation Studio and the letter written by the Ukrainian teacher Olesia to professor Mitch Resnick, the Waves of Kindness Campaign for the Scratch Days in Brazil reflected our own community’s ideals and hopes for the future of our country. In this session, we will share creative learning resources and design principles for community engagement and illustrate how the community responded with meaningful initiatives of kindness, equity, and inclusion.Presenters: Paulo Henrique de Souza Reis (Brazilian Creative Learning Network, Gabriela Goulart (Brazilian Creative Learning Network BCLN/RBAC), Fabiana Lorenzi (Brazilian Creative Learning Network), Elaine Rocha (Brazilian Creative Learning Network), João Adriano Freitas (Brazilian Creative Learning Network)Co-Creating Pathways from ScratchJr to ScratchIn “Co-Creating Pathways from ScratchJr to Scratch”, teachers and facilitators will come together to ideate on how to best bridge the gap from ScratchJr to Scratch through curricular support. ScratchJr is adapted from Scratch to be a developmentally appropriate programming language for children ages 5-7. While the two programming languages share many commonalities, there is a lack of robust resources for connecting the two platforms in a clear and easy way. In this discussion, we will review current curricular resources for connecting the two, and work together to create even more!Presenters: Jessica Blake-West (DevTech Research Group), Tess Levinson (DevTech Research Group, Tufts University)Hacking apps with Makey Makey &amp; Scratch: Sketches, Scores, and MoreJoin Eric and Colleen to learn how you can use Makey Makey and Scratch together to make simple sound and movement projects, weird and wacky physical controllers, and incorporate Scratch hacks with your Makey Makey inventions for a world of fun.Presenters: Colleen Graves (Makey Makey / Joy Labz), Eric Rosenbaum (Scratch Foundation)Disrupting Inequalities Across the Curriculum with ScratchAre you looking for ways to ensure you are teaching with Scratch to disrupt inequalities in your school, district, and across your community? Join this candid conversation with several of CSTA’s Equity Fellows as they provide best practices, examples, and resources for all teachers in CS and general classrooms in support of equitable creative coding.Presenters: Shaina Glass CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Assoc.), Leon Tynes (Xavier College Preparatory), Carla M Neely (Warner Girls&#x27; Leadership Academy/Cleveland Metropolitan School District), Shawn Higgins (ORCA)Social Break 2 1:15pm - 2:15pm ET Scratching Across...Social Break sessions will be facilitated by members of the Scratch global community. Join these informal chats to make new connections, share ideas, and meet other educators from your region or beyond!Social Break: Scratching Across Africa!Presenters: Linford Molaodi (University of Johannesburg), Alex Magu (The STEM Impact Center Kenya), Maya Kigen (Youth for Technology Foundation)Social Break: Scratching Across Europe!Presenters: Jon Chippindall (Barefoot), Arjana Blazic (EU Code Week/ European Schoolnet)Social Break: Scratching Across Asia!Presenter: Rishi Mazumdar (Quest Alliance)Social Break: Scratching Across North America!Presenters: Juliet Waters (Digital Moment (formerly Kids Code Jeunesse)), Ronah Harris (Play Pattern)Social Break: Scratching Across Latin America!Presenters: Vero Estrada (Edukreativos), Lula García (Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicación Educativa (ILCE))Create &amp; Connect 3 1:15 - 2:15pm ETFacilitating Family Creative LearningWe will share and engage in an interactive tour of the Family Creative Learning (FCL) Facilitator Guide, which documents the design of a series of workshops along with facilitation strategies to support families from nondominant groups in computing to create and learn together with new technologies. Building on the success of the 2014 FCL Guide, we will share a new version that utilizes ScratchJr and highlight new strategies such as using documentation to make learning visible for facilitators and families.Presenters: Ricarose Roque (University of Colorado Boulder), Celeste Moreno (University of Colorado Boulder), Ronni Hayden (University of Colorado Boulder)Create-Along with Deaf Kids Code!Come create along with Deaf Kids Code as we share multiple pathways to projects that integrate American Sign Language and overall language development. Come ready to tinker, try things out, and learn more about our interdisciplinary approach to engage young people in language acquisition and creative coding.Presenters: Nadia Iftekhar (Modal Math), Shireen Hafeez (Deaf Kids Code), Dahlia Hernandez (DKC), Eric Salgado (Bell School)Making Faces: Communicating Feelings With CodeInspired by the Exploratorium’s “Making Faces” project, participants will explore how they can use Scratch to express feelings and emotions in a fun and creative way. Starting with an unplugged activity that allows participants to imagine all the different ways we communicate how we feel using the different parts of our face: our eyes, mouth, and even nose and ears. We will then take those faces into Scratch or Scratch Jr. to bring them to life!!Presenters: Aaron Reuland (Norwood Public Schools), Nomusa Keninda (Mpumalanga ICT Club), Ariam Mogos (Stanford d.school), Mahmoud Aliamer (Chicago Board of Education), Lionel Bergeron (New York City Department of Education / CSforAll), Leslie Johnson (NYCDOE)Computing for a Purpose: My CommunityJoin us for a hands-on exploration of our Computing for a Purpose curriculum. Participants will consider people and places that they care about within their community, and create Scratch projects of their present situations to imagine the future they wish to see. Together we will celebrate things that we love about our communities and also reflect on challenges faced to envision ways to change them.Presenters: Cecilé Sadler (MIT Media Lab), Jaleesa Trapp (MIT Media Lab)Create &amp; Connect 4 2:20pm - 3:20pm ETDiscover, Connect &amp; Create: Providing Creative Learning Pathways for Educators with ScratchJr in Latin America / Descubrir, conectar y crear: Brindando caminos de aprendizaje creativo para educadores con ScratchJr en LatinoaméricaDiscover, Connect &amp; Create! The Fundación Varkey team will share the impact of our innovative approach to supporting creative coding across Latin America. Participants will be introduced to “Comunidad Atenea,” a space for teachers to share practice, plan their lessons, and enhance the collaborative aspect of learning in the region. We will discuss the challenges and bright spots in translating, interpreting, and contextualizing the ScratchJr “Coding As Another Language (CAL)” of Tufts University for a diverse audience of educators. Be among the first to explore our new website in Spanish and connect on research topics we are piloting with the DevTech Team. Come discover with us!Presenters: Hernán Diego González Francés (Varkey Foundation), Yanina Pamela Gonzalez (Fundación Varkey)Let’s Connect: Scratch Educator MeetupsScratch Educator Meetups are participatory professional learning experiences that are organized by teachers, for teachers. Prior to 2020, ScratchEd Meetups were local, in-person experiences. For the last two years, ScratchEd Meetups have been a combination of in-person, online, and hybrid events. In this 60-minute session, led by ScratchEd Meetup organizers from around the world, you will learn about the process of participating in (or organizing your own!) ScratchEd Meetup.Presenters: Chris Colley (LEARN), Bradley Quentin (Houston ISD), Laura Peters (Boston Public Schools), Ingrid Gustafson (Cambridge Public Schools)From Face Sensing to Physics: A Scratch Extension Mashup!Did you know you could use Scratch to stick things to your face? Or make the Scratch Cat moonwalk? Eric and Mimi from the Scratch Team will lead participants through an epic Scratch Extension adventure! We will tinker with the Face Sensing and Animated Text blocks currently available in Scratch Lab before heading into more unchartered territory with the Sound Sensing and Physics Extensions. No need to bring anything other than your imagination…What will you create?Presenters: Aaron Reuland (Norwood Public Schools), Robbie Khazan (Kiddo Byte), Eric Rosenbaum (Scratch Foundation), Mimi Shalf (Scratch Foundation)Exploring Wide Walls and High Ceilings with Scratch + micro:bitLet’s explore the variety of creative possibilities with Scratch + micro:bit! Join us for a hands-on workshop that will introduce activities you can take right back to your learners. Bringing your own micro:bit is encouraged, but not necessary: there will be plenty of demonstrations to follow along. We’ll start by showing you how to connect the micro:bit to Scratch and dive into interactive projects like Video Sensing and much more.Presenters: Debbie Berlin (The STEAM Center at Dynamic Wellness (DC Health and Wellness (501c3)), Greg Beutler (Oakland Unity HS), Rudy Escobar (Stanislaus County Office of Education), Daniel Sandoval Villa (Club Maker)Closing 3:25pm - 4pm ETScratch On!Celebrate and share your experience! We&#x27;ll gather together to reflect on the conference and imagine future directions.Presenters: Carolina Rodeghiero (Brazilian Creative Learning Network), Francisco Cervantes (Scratch Foundation), Mitchel Resnick (MIT Media Lab), Natalie Rusk (MIT Media Lab), Rupal Jain (MIT Media Lab)

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