Everything about ScratchJr

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ScratchJrA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Enhancing computational thinking in early childhood education through ScratchJr integrationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Coding with ScratchjrThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Developing fundamental programming concepts and computational thinking with ScratchJr in preschool education: a case studyCited 181 times
5. Go sideways: Marina Umaschi BersA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Scratch (programming language)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Developing fundamental programming concepts and computational thinking with ScratchJr in preschool education: a case study

  Stamatios Papadakis, Michail Kalogiannakis, Nicholas Zaranis · 2016 · International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation · 181 citations

• Coding and Computational Thinking in Early Childhood: The Impact of ScratchJr in Europe

  Marina Umaschi Bers · 2018 · European Journal of STEM Education · 170 citations

• Teaching tools, teachers’ rules: exploring the impact of teaching styles on young children’s programming knowledge in ScratchJr

  Amanda Strawhacker, Melissa Lee, Marina Umaschi Bers · 2017 · International Journal of Technology and Design Education · 98 citations

• Constructing the ScratchJr programming language in the early childhood classroom

  Dylan J. Portelance, Amanda L. Strawhacker, Marina Umaschi Bers · 2015 · International Journal of Technology and Design Education · 77 citations

• Using ScratchJr to Foster Young Children’s Computational Thinking Competence: A Case Study in a Third-Grade Computer Class

  Pao-Nan Chou · 2019 · Journal of Educational Computing Research · 63 citations

• Can Preschoolers Learn Computational Thinking and Coding Skills with ScratchJr? A Systematic Literature Review

  Papadakis Stamatios · 2022 · International Journal of Educational Reform · 60 citations

• The Coding Stages Assessment: development and validation of an instrument for assessing young children’s proficiency in the ScratchJr programming language

  Laura E. de Ruiter, Marina U. Bers · 2021 · Computer Science Education · 41 citations

• Computer Science Education in Early Childhood: The Case of ScratchJr

  Amanda Sullivan, Marina Umashi Bers · 2019 · Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice · 37 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Enhancing computational thinking in early childhood education through ScratchJr integration

  Konstantina Louka, Stamatios Papadakis · 2024 · Heliyon · 28 citations

• Evaluating young children’s creative coding: rubric development and testing for ScratchJr projects

  Apittha Unahalekhaka, Marina Umaschi Bers · 2022 · Education and Information Technologies · 21 citations

• ScratchJr design in practice: Low floor, high ceiling

  Jessica C. Blake-West, Marina U. Bers · 2023 · International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction · 18 citations

• Examining Gender Difference in the Use of ScratchJr in a Programming Curriculum for First Graders

  Zhanxia Yang, Marina Bers · 2023 · Computer Science Education · 10 citations

• PENGARUH PERMAINAN SCRATCHJR TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KOMPUTASIONAL ANAK USIA 5-6 TAHUN

  Widya Dwi Hardiyanti, Ruli Hafidah, Adriani Rahma Pudyaningtyas · 2023 · Kumara Cendekia · 6 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Coding with ScratchjrAdrienne Matteson · 2017
• The official ScratchJr bookMarina Umaschi Bers · 2015
• 📕Making Games with ScratchJrTracy Gardner · 2021
• 📕ScratchJr ProgrammingCodi Miller · 2018
• Coding with ScratchJrÁlvaro Scrivano · 2019
• Speech and Sounds with ScratchjrTracy Gardner, Elbrie de Kock · 2021
• Art and Photos with ScratchJrTracy Gardner · 2021
• Animation and Stories with ScratchJrTracy Gardner · 2021

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