Creating videogames with Scratch in Secondary Schools
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Abstract
This paper presents an educational experience in which high school students create video games in the classroom through free programming software. The educational project is based on the software application "Scratch," an open source graphical environment developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to learn intuitively coding by blocks. As a result of the experience, students have been able to design and create complex video games with different programming modules thus increasing their technical skills and promoting greater creativity of the teaching-learning process. In a near horizon, digital illiteracy will be represented by those who are not able to be digital creators. A digital creation that is a necessary competence for the proper and complete development of a person in any academic, social and professional environment and to develop objectives and competencies of formal education from a creative perspective.
Keywords
Video games, programming, Education, ScratchDownloads
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