DevTech Lab - KIBO and ScratchJr Demo (BLOCKS+ 2018)

Sun 4 - Fri 9 November 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Who

Catherine Cowell, Hannah Riehl, Marina Umaschi Bers

Track

BLOCKS+ 2018

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When

Sun 4 Nov 2018 11:34 - 11:37 at Beacon Hill - Empowerment & Broadening Participation

Abstract

Join us for a hands-on KIBO robotics and ScratchJr programming demo! Both of these environments are playfully designed for young children to learn how to use coding to express themselves. KIBO is a tangible block-based coding language and Scratch Jr, a graphical coding language. At this demo session, participants can explore hands-on how to use ScratchJr and KIBO to teach coding in a playful, developmentally appropriate way. The KIBO robotic kit is designed by the DevTech Research Group at Tufts University by professor Marina Umaschi Bers and is commercialized by KinderLab Robotics all over the world. KIBO promotes the acquisition of programming skills in children 4-7 years of age, and is an award-winning and internationally recognized educational platform which provides a completely off-screen coding experience. ScratchJr is a free programming app for children ages 5-7 designed to teach basic coding concepts and computational thinking skills. The ScratchJr programming app was created as a collaboration between the DevTech Research Group at Tufts University and MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group.

Link to Preprint

http://cs.wellesley.edu/~blocksplus/2018/?id=22

Catherine Cowell

Tufts University

Hannah Riehl

Tufts University

Marina Umaschi Bers

Tufts University

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Session Program

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11:00 - 12:00	Empowerment & Broadening ParticipationBLOCKS+ at Beacon Hill

11:00 10m Talk		Broadening Participation in Computer Science through Block Programming BLOCKS+ Beryl Hoffman Elms College, Ralph Morelli Trinity College, Jennifer Rosato College of St. Scholastica Pre-print
11:10 10m Talk		Reducing the Barriers for Computational Action: How Blocks-Based Programming Can Support Digital Empowerment BLOCKS+ Mike Tissenbaum University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain, Josh Sheldon MIT App Inventor, Hal Abelson MIT Pre-print
11:20 8m Other		Themed Session 2: Whole-group discussions BLOCKS+
11:28 3m Talk		Educational Robotics with a Twist BLOCKS+ Hamid Zare Graduate Student, Miklos Maroti Associate Professor, Akos Ledeczi Vanderbilt University Pre-print
11:31 3m Talk		A Blocks-Based Approach to Internet of Things in MIT App Inventor BLOCKS+ Wen Xi Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Evan W Patton Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pre-print
11:34 3m Talk		DevTech Lab - KIBO and ScratchJr Demo BLOCKS+ Catherine Cowell Tufts University, Hannah Riehl Tufts University, Marina Umaschi Bers Tufts University Pre-print
11:37 3m Talk		CloudDB in MIT App Inventor BLOCKS+ Natalie Lao
11:40 20m Other		Themed Session 2: Breakout discussions and demos/posters BLOCKS+