Creating Animations That Talk: Express Ideas With Language Extensions in Scratch |
Explore and create : Creation lab
Sunday, November 29, 7:45–9:15 am PST (Pacific Standard Time)
Jacy Edelman Marian Muthui Dr. Natalie Rusk
How can you create animations that can talk? How can you make a project that translates into multiple languages? Experiment with new extensions to Scratch that your students can use to express ideas that span language arts, social studies, science and other subject areas.
Audience: | Teachers, Professional developers, Technology coordinators/facilitators |
Skill level: | Beginner |
Attendee devices: | Devices required |
Attendee device specification: | Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC |
Participant accounts, software and other materials: | https://scratch.mit.edu |
Topic: | Creativity & curation tools |
Grade level: | PK-12 |
Subject area: | Language arts, STEM/STEAM |
ISTE Standards: | For Students: Creative Communicator
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Additional detail: | Session recorded for video-on-demand |
The purpose of this session is to enable educators to explore how students can use coding to expand their ability to communicate their ideas. The workshop will introduce and support participants in experimenting with new Scratch coding blocks, including text-to-speech and language translation extensions. Educators will explore examples from students around the world, and create their own animations that can talk aloud and show translations in multiple languages.
The session will provide participants with a hands-on introduction to coding with Scratch language extensions. The session will be organized in a playful, interactive, exploratory style, with participants quickly diving into hands-on experimentation, and then stepping back for reflection and discussion. Participants will have opportunities to share with others, and also to ask questions and discuss strategies with members of the Scratch Team, who will be facilitating the session.
Here is our proposed timeline:
(5 minutes) Short demonstration of diverse projects students have created with Scratch language features
(5 minutes) Introduction of how to add the Text-to-Speech blocks.
(20 minutes) Participants experiment with these blocks
(5 minutes) Participants share and reflect on their experiences
(5 minutes) Introduction of the Translate coding blocks
(20 minutes) Participants work on simple project using these extensions
(5 minutes) Participants share and reflect on their experiences
(5 minutes) Presentation of strategies and resources for supporting creating projects across subject areas using these coding blocks
(20 minutes) Whole group Q&A and discussion
The Scratch in Practice website (sip.scratch.mit.edu) highlights how educators around the world are using Scratch to support students' creative expression and deepen student learning across subject areas. This ISTE blog post introduces some of the ideas behind use of Scratch across the curriculum: https://www.iste.org/explore/Computer-Science/3-reasons-to-use-Scratch-across-the-curriculum
The value of providing students coding environments in their native language is explored in this research paper: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3060000/3051464/p33-dasgupta.pdf
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