Posted by Toni

It was a busy day today at Family School, but I didn't want to leave without sharing a free resource for the budding game designer, artist, musician, story teller or student in your house.  It's an exciting computer programming tool called Scratch, available here  http://scratch.mit.edu/  

Scratch provides a platform for kids to share their work and collaborate with others to reach greater levels of complexity and programming expertise.  In the process they pick up a lot of skills in the way of persistence and synthesizing information.  I'm wondering how much deeper my elementary school understanding of photosynthesis would have been if I'd designed a game about it for my classmates to play.