Script Changers: Digital Storytelling with Scratch (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning) - Hardcover

Peppler, Kylie; Santo, Rafi; Gresalfi, Melissa; Tekinbas, Katie Salen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262027828 ISBN 13: 9780262027823

Publisher: MIT Press, 2014

Synopsis

Helping students create interactive and animated stories about positive change in their communities.

Script Changers shows the ways that stories offer a lens for seeing the world as a series of systems. It provides opportunities for students to create interactive and animated stories about creating positive change in their communities. These projects utilize the Scratch visual programming environment.

About this title

About the Author

Kylie Peppler is Assistant Professor in the Learning Sciences Program and Director of the Creativity Labs at Indiana University Bloomington.

Review

Young people growing up today will surely be called upon to address thorny problems that cut across global, interconnected systems: the environment, the economy, the global infrastructure. Few skills will be more important than the capacity to see, understand, and innovate systems. The Interconnections collection, created through a collaboration among scholars, curriculum developers, and teachers across the National Writing Project, provides approaches to teaching systems thinking through activities that also build literacy and support Common Core Standards and career-readiness. This 'both-and' approach is a demonstration of what forward-looking curriculum must be in a digital age.

―Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Executive Director, National Writing Project, University of California, Berkeley

The books in this collection offer wonderful activities for engaging young people in new ways of making, helping them learn to express themselves creatively with new technologies. But even more important, they engage young people in new ways of seeing, helping them develop new perspectives for understanding the world―and understanding themselves.

―Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, and Director, Lifelong Kindergarten group, MIT Media Lab

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0262027828
• ISBN 13: 9780262027823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 311