Creatively and Informally: Scratch and the Remix Culture

• Authors: Zuziak Wojciech Jan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the focus of education on creativity achieved by the use of coding (“code to learn”), in view of modern pedagogical theories. Social interactions between young creators are an important factor. The paper describes an initial stage of the research on the phenomenon of the remix of simple computer games created by the community of users in the Scratch environment. It presents selected problems of young creators connected to sharing their own work with other community members: authorship acknowledgement, formal acknowledgement for the first author placed on derived products (games), reactions of the first author to the creative development of their ideas or influence of school grades on the will to share the project. There will be further research on the achievements of the same group of students aged 15 to 16 after a series of lessons concerning creating computer games in the Scratch environment.

Keywords

EN

education for creativity; connectivism; constructionism; code to learn; Scratch; culture of remix

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: International Journal of Research in E-learning IJREL
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 89-105

Dates

published

2017-04-01

Contributors

author

Zuziak Wojciech Jan

• The Robotics Lab Project, Bielsko-Biała

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