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Kristin Hokanson - What is play..and how does it align with what you do in school

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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

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Kristin Hokanson - We want them to innovate, create communicate and collaborate

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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

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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/

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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

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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

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[Comment From Carolyn]
Thanks for blogging Kristin

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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

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Kristin Hokanson - wow this is very cool...can code script to move each sprite

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Kristin Hokanson - I can really see how the kids can get into the experimenting

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[Comment From Kim Caise]
@kristin, what is a sprite in Scratch?

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[Comment From Anne]
Kristin, there is so much potential for math, whether teacher created gaming, or post-analysis of student created games

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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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