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Kristin Hokanson -  What is play..and how does it align with what you do in school
10:33
Kristin Hokanson -  Have more fun when we are at play...how can we take the ideas of what we did in kindergarten and turn them into lifetime kindergarten

10:34
Kristin Hokanson -  We want them to innovate, create communicate and collaborate
10:35
Kristin Hokanson -  Effective learners Create and innovate: How do we create and innovate within school
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Kristin Hokanson -  Communicators and Collaborators:   Scratch site builds those skills
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Kristin Hokanson -  We need kids who are producers and creators...kids need to have a globally defined problem to find multiple entrance points
10:43
Kristin Hokanson -  kids are so skilled at doing what kids ask them to ...Sowing seeds for a more creative society...Imagine, create, play, share, reflect & imagine
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Kristin Hokanson -  http://programming4kids.wikispaces.com/
10:48
Kristin Hokanson -  not only can you download the scratch application you can google search SCRATCH and find lots of flash based versions online
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Kristin Hokanson -  Scratch is open source so it can be built upon
10:52
Kristin Hokanson -  Building with scratch is drag & drop just like clicking blocks...if can't get their guy to move they have to work through the problem to determine what motion is needed
10:55
[Comment From Carolyn]
Thanks for blogging Kristin
10:55
Kristin Hokanson -  really cool to see the coordinate plane to move him...you can see the mouse... moving to those coordinates like the glide command

10:57
Kristin Hokanson -  wow this is very cool...can code script to move each sprite
10:57
Kristin Hokanson -  I can really see how the kids can get into the experimenting

10:59
[Comment From Kim Caise]
@kristin, what is a sprite in Scratch?
10:59
[Comment From Anne]
Kristin, there is so much potential for math, whether teacher created gaming, or post-analysis of student created games
11:00
Kristin Hokanson -  @kim each little character is a sprite...right now linda is showing a shark sprite and a fish sprite the Shark randomly floats around til it catches the fish and the fish screams
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Kristin Hokanson -  the beauty of it is that the kids have to drag and drop and think about the positioning and make chages

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