Although the information technology teaching content under the current education system can satisfy children's acquisition of information knowledge to a certain extent, with the continuous updating and iteration of science and technology, children have been unable to master many skills needed in practice simply by attending classes. The birth of Scratch injected new elements into the information technology classroom, and realized the transformation from "technology-centered" to "student-centered".
Everyone who knows it knows that many details are involved in the process of making a product and realizing a function alive. For example, according to the demand, how to design the framework reasonably; With the framework, how to design the corresponding classes to facilitate future expansion or improve reusability; When you start writing specific functions, you should also seriously think about what abnormal situations exist, how to design them to achieve the best results and so on. Therefore, programming practice can not only effectively stimulate students' interest in learning programming, but more importantly, train their logical thinking ability, which will accompany children's life. At the same time, Scratch is a process of conceiving products while creating, which can cultivate children's innovative spirit.
At present, people in more than 150 different countries or regions are using Scratch, which provides versions in more than 40 different languages. Since 20 1 1-20 12, there has been an upsurge of scratch learning and research in Chinese mainland.
Learning Scratch helps to cultivate students' initiative and exploration spirit. Scratch's simple and intuitive advantages build a solid platform for students' inquiry learning. In the creative process, it involves many fields of knowledge, such as science (science), technology (technology), engineering (engineering), art (art), mathematics (mathematics) and so on. For example, teachers put forward a development task first, and students can explore the meaning of each instruction by guessing, trying and verifying, and sum up various methods to meet this task. It breaks through the limitation of introducing commands one by one or even explaining the usage by hand in the previous teaching process, and then achieving the teaching purpose through repeated practice and rote memorization by students.
Learning Scratch helps to cultivate students' logical thinking ability. Cultivating students' logical thinking ability is very important for their future growth. When older children learn Scratch programming, they will involve a lot of mathematical knowledge, and they need to combine the mathematical knowledge they have learned at school to solve programming problems. In Scratch, the training of logical thinking ability can be integrated into specific creative situations, so that students can gradually develop into abstract logical reasoning in the process of practice, thus forming a certain logical thinking ability.
Learning Scratch helps to stimulate students' innovative ability. Scratch is easy to learn and powerful. Its rich physical objects, cartoon shapes, rich colors, diverse explanations and rich interactions naturally stimulate students' imagination. It helps children to develop their imagination. In the process of hands-on creation, students' enthusiasm, imagination and creativity will be greatly exercised. Students of different ages and knowledge levels can use the Scratch platform to realize their own imagination and creation. Children can use the existing materials in Scratch to make games and animations with their own imagination, or they can design their own materials.
Scratch's many advantages give us another choice in educating our children. Teachers and parents should combine the simple and easy-to-understand characteristics of Scratch to guide students to explore independently, actively think and summarize in practice, and let students boldly assume, explore and verify their own ideas. At the same time, give students enough space to solve problems in their own way of thinking. In addition, more inspiration, help and encouragement should be given in teaching, so that children with various abilities can play their roles and gradually develop their logical thinking ability. Many children's habits are formed from childhood. Therefore, programming is a very effective means of education for children of all stages and abilities.