Great way to introduce coding to younger students
Community Review for ScratchJr
My Take
I think because coding is very difficult to understand with the age group I was working with, scratch jr really helped to show the basic cause and effect for learners. By no means is this an app to completely take over a coding lesson at a higher level, but for young kids who are interested in learning about the topic and how to code, this is a great start for kids to a head start and learn the basic introduction. I would like to see more inputs that the students themselves can write, it feels a little easy sometimes for them, like matching and doing a puzzle.
How I Use It
Over the summer, working with kids around the ages 5-9, they were very interested in coding. However, coding can be very overwhelming. So when using Scratch jr, there are a lot of pictures and colors to keep the engagement at a higher level, they can test their codes and make what they want. It is not basic letters and numbers but more like putting puzzle pieces together.