Literacy
from Scratch
BETT13 Press Release
Lawrence
Williams supported by pupils from Bishop Ramsey School gave a presentation
about their work with Scratch to a seminar at the prestigious IT Exhibition
BETT13 held in January at the Excel Centre, London. The session began with
an Interview
with Bob Geldof (MirandaNet Archive site), followed by the pupils' presentation.
Other items included a session on 'Re-engineering
education' (MirandaNet Archive site) and 'Digital Publication'.
The full press release can be downloaded in Word (303MB) and viewed on the MirandaNet Archive site. This is the section about Scratch.
The ICT Curriculum
A key theme was the ICT curriculum. Notable amongst teachers’ presentations
was Literacy from Scratch - a curriculum exchange between Dr Mirka Černochová
from Charles University, Czech Republic and Lawrence Williams from Brunel
University, working with Bishop Ramsey School, Ruislip, London. The project
developing literacy skills in story telling, uses Scratch, an introductory
programming language across the whole of the Year 8 mixed-ability group.
A pupil with Lawrence Williams explaining her story programmed in Scratch
Support materials for other teachers to use are also being written, tested, and developed at the school, and are being sent out for trials in the Czech Republic. The pupils who presented the stories they had programmed were awarded a World Ecitizens certificate for sharing their knowledge with others on this website for pupils’ publications.
Achieving a World Ecitizens’ certificate for publication
