Inaugural NYC Scratch Educator Meetup

NYC Scratch Educator Meetup & Information Session

• brought to you by Code-to-Learn Foundation ( http://codetolearn.org/ ) and CSNYC (http://csnyc.org/)

Please join us at an introductory meetup to learn about Scratch, how to bring it to your school, and talk to experts and educators currently using Scratch in their classrooms. Meetups will take place throughout the year to provide support and serve as consistent ‘PD’ for in-service and prospective Scratch educators as well as a place for those educators to meet and collaborate.

Karen Brennan from the ScratchEd Team at Harvard University (http://scratch-ed.org) will help us kick off the event. The meetups will be monthly, includes breakfast and lunch, free to all participants, and can qualify for PD hours.

The BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) meetup will:

• share strategies for integrating Scratch into classroom practice
• explore the core ideas underlying Scratch
• self-organize into different interest groups and hands-on activities
• introduce you to ScratchEd (http://scratched.media.mit.edu), the website where educators share their Scratch ideas, experiences, and resources For more information, please contact Cindy Gao ( cindy@csnyc.org ).