Grants/Approach for a Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for Secondary Students

2010-06-30T19:09:44Z

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{{Grant Application
|Project Title=Approach for a Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for Secondary Students
|applicants=Ignacio Nieto
|contact person=Ignacio Nieto
|coordinator=Ignacio Nieto
|start date=2010/09/06
|end date=2010/12/17
|Affiliation=Matucana 100. Cultural Centre, LaMe (Laboratorio Medial)
|Mainurl=www.m100.cl, www.lame.
|Affiliated=No
|description=The proyect "Approach for a Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for Secondary Students" raises the realization of a workshop from October to November 2010, in an introductory level, where one hundred children will learn and develop knowledge and basic skills in computer applications programming, in a educational and meaningful way through the Scratch programming environment (http://www.scratch.mit.edu) at the Cultural Centre Matucana 100.
|output=The project will consists of an introductory workshop of Scratch platform in one week for 10 selected students that belongs to schools fincanced by the
state that are close to the Cultural Centre Matucana 100 . "Approach for
a Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for Secondary Students" will
be done during ten weeks (September 27 to December 3 2010) from 2:30 pm
to 5:45 pm, giving the opportunity to introduce the platform Scratch to
a hundred students of the city of Santiago.

The proyect “Approach for a Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for
Secondary Students” will make available under Creative Commons License
to the educational community who communicate in spanish the following
material in digital form:

- A manual, designed in Inkscape, written in Spanish, consisting of an
introduction to the interface and the Scratch programming language. The
manual file in Inkscape, will be made available to the community at the
site of Matucana 100 and at the site of Lame (www.m100.cl and
www.lame.cl). The manual file done in Inkscape will be available for the
spanish spoken educational community for future changes, corrections or
deepening.
The index of the manual is as follows:

1- Programming Language Syntax Scratch
2- How to Program an Animation
3- Interaction with Different Objects Occupying the mouse and / or Keys
4- Manipulating a database with Scratch

- All the applications scheduled for the completion of the
introduction manual and those created in the workshop “Approach for a
Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for Secondary Students” will be
upload in the official site of Scratch under one user subscription
created especially for the occasion.

In these sense it should be emphasized that applications programmed in
Scratch can be downloaded anywhere in the world and reused. These is one
of the main characteristics of platform Scratch, because the nuclues of
the program have a translator and multilingual tool that lets you
change the language of the graphical interface and doing it, will also
change the language of programming codes of any application that you
working inside Scratch.

|community=The workshops will be made to 100 selected students from 14 to 15 years that belonging to public schools of zones near by Matucana 100 Cultural Centre: Santiago Centro, Quinta Normal and Estacion Central. The introductory workshop will last one week and will be held for ten weeks in Matucana 100 Cultural Centre. Students in these zones of the city of Santiago belongs to middle and
lower classes. This group has a low level learning, according to the
latest SIMCE by the Government of Chile (http://www.simce.cl/mapas/?geocode=13).

The project “Approach for a Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for
Secondary Students” will help to create twenty-first century skills,
learn and reinforce mathematical concepts and logical, while deepening
and understand the application design. The workshop will help them think
creatively, to analyze and systematically to use technology collaborate
smoothly and effectively, thus giving them new ways of working,
collaborating and communicating that will benefit them professionally in
a medium-term future, when choosing a technical or university career.

|community relationship=The relationship with the community is very close, for years I have taught
courses at the same socioeconomic group, the only difference is that I
have had to share my knowledge to a older generation (Andres Bello
University School of Arts and Technological Institute of Chile, Career
Design).

I have conducted training workshops in animation using Flash, image
manipulation with Photoshop, video editing with Premiere and
programming, covering ActionScript, Processing and Arduino. This
experience has allowed me to be an observer and facilitator of development and changes occurs with the educational digital platforms in pass ten years.

On parallel, I am a researcher in the area of art labeled by some as New
Media. In this area I have participated in publications such as
aminima:: (http://aminima.net) and ISEA (http://www.isea-web.org/,) and
done exhibitions talks and workshops in Chile and in other countries.
The last paricipaition I had being was called The Future of the Lab,
organizated by Baltan Lab (www.baltanlaboratories.org/?p=1420). I have,
therefore, a profile of artist as researcher in this area. For more
background (www.autopoietica.net)

Parallel to this expirience, I conducted workshops for children,
teaching computer graphics in Photoshop and programming in Scratch also.
I was the first to conduct workshops Scratch at a public school in
Chile, and in two opportunities to participate in Scratch Day. I had
show Scratch to Open Community seminars in 2009 at the Technological
University of Chile.

Currently I’m working ad honorem in the Cutural Center funded by the
state, called Matucana 100 (www.m100.cl) to set up a Media Lab. We have
assigned, with a group of people, a space in there called Residence. In
these sense we dont have the equipment to do the Workshop but we have
the space and the comuncational plataform of Matucana 100 Cultural
Centre to do activities. One of them will be “Approach for a Working
Emerging Field Through Scratch for Secondary Students”.
|measurement=The impact of the project, “Approach for a Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for Secondary Students” will is measured through a questionnaire to examine both teacher performance and matter learned.

The subject is taught previously checked against plans and programs of
the Chilean Ministry of Education, and on that basis and the information
obtained from other web sites will be developed an introductory manual
to the Scratch programming platform. The main purpose of this evaluation
is to ensure the constant improvement of the quality of education and
excellence in teacher education.

Another impact will be that we will have computers for doing other
workshops using free software in the future. In sustitution of propetary
software. Its very important to dimension both sides of the digital
culture producitvity, one centralize by propetary softwares and
descentralize in the sense of FLOSS (free/libre and open source
software).

|participants=It aims to show the programming platform Scratch to a hundred school students from lower middle social stratum, that belongs to three communes of Santiago (Santiago Centro, Estacion Central, Quinta Normal). To sustain a lasting relationship with the project participants we will establish a relational system where they will exists:

- Relations with the Audience
We will have close and friendship relation with the people who will
particiapte in the workshop. In these sense we will work in the oficial
blog of Scratch updating it and promoting it using an email data base.
Also the workshops will be analyze in the sense of quiality using a
form done in PHP. All the information will be store ina a server for
future proyections.

- Relations with Public Organizations
There is an important role played by the public sector in the provision
of activities for educational propose, both in governance and private
management. In this regard, we will made efforts to create a strong
educational organization dedicated specifically to the area of education
and technology. For that we will establish relations with public
organization dedicated to the educational sector like Free Software
Chile organization or Educa Chile. In addition we will establish
linkages with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Economy, CORFO
and mines companies that support these initiatives.

Although formal relations with educational institutions should belong to
these group. It is believed that the space of a collaborative knowledge
(where the workshop will take place), is interesting them. In these
sense there are a lot of primary and secondary educational institutions
around the Matucana 100 Cultural Centre:

http://www.municipalidaddesantiago.cl/educacion/establecimientos.php
http://matriculascolegios.cl/mc06/sub01/quintanormal.htm
http://www.matriculascolegios.cl/mc06/sub01/estacioncentral.htm

In these point we have consider also, a large number of universities
where are close to the Cultural Centre Matucana 100. These universities
could be in a near future related directly or indirectly to the project
“Approach for a Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for Secondary
Students” or to other activities we are working. Some of the
universisties that are close to Matucana 100 are: Universidad de
Santiago, Universidad Bolivariana, Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello,
Universidad Diego Portales. They have several schools such as
Engineering, Design, Science, Art, Primary and Secondary Education.
These relation will permit to see scope for continous exchange of
experiences among the universities student, academics, the members of
the media lab and why not with the students that will go to the
workshops “Approach for a Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for
Secondary Students”.
|impact=For the project “Approach for a Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for Secondary Students” will have netbooks bought, that will have operating system
Ubuntu. Each computer will have install the Scratch programming
platform.

If the proyect have a good impact we will install other open source
plataforms (Processing, Pure Data, Arduino, Blender),and teach them
also. In parallel all the activities (video and audio editing, writing,
or programming applications) done in the computers will be licensed
Creative Commons and the be online for the community.
|tech needs=For the proyect "Approach for a Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for
Secondary Students" we will use ten tochscrenn netbooks with Ubuntu
Operating System. In each of them wi will install Scratch. For the
workshops we will use also a datashow projector.

I have a great technical expirience teaching video editing, animation,
digital photograph. Besides I have programm in Actionscript, Processing, Mobile Processing, Flex, and have basic knowledge of PHP. I have a long expirience researching the are of the new medias, the hybrid of art and technology.

|challenges=The challenge is to make a diagnostic concerning to the interest of Scratch in the public school. If the interest is higher we could justify a larger scale project that is nationwide teaching Scratch. In this sense, and if the project is well evaluated, will be a precedent for submission through the Cultural
Centre Matucana 100 to Chilean Ministry of Education to work in a
program for Primary and Secondary level using Scratch platform or other
tools.
|sustainability=We will search for private and state funding. The Cultural Centre Matucana 100 have great archive of contacts that could finance a educational proyect like these. Also we will research for other international fundings to make possible these project and other projects using Creative Commons licenses.
|scalability=It is thought that in future the project should be replicated not only in the laboratory, but at the metropolitan level and finally at the regional level. The challenge was how to introduce the teaching of the Scratch software platform within the schools in Chile.
|resource needs=A ecnomical one.
The resources are:

- Purchase of 10 computers
ASUS. Eee PC T91, Intel® Atom Z520, 1Gb DDR2, 32Gb, Wlan 802.11b/g/n, USB2.0, 8.9" TFT LED,
In Chile, these have a value of $ 389,000 Chilean pesos. / USD 709.924

Distributor:
Bip Computers
http://www.bip.cl/ecommerce/index.php?modulo=busca&id_producto=7195

SubTotal: $ 3,890,000 Chilean pesos.
SubTotal: USD 7099,24

- Day cost of the workshop $20.000. During 10 weeks from Septembet to December
SubTotal: $ 1,000,000 Chilean pesos.
SubTotal: USD 1,824.984

- 30 hours of preparing material. Value per hour $ 4,000 Chilean pesos.
SubTotal: $ 150,000 Chilean pesos.
SubTotal: USD 219.760

- Data Show Projector Proyector ViewSonic PJD5112/DLP (VS12618)
Distributor: Almacenes Paris.
http://www.paris.cl/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/productLP_10001_40000000577_-5_11810901_18877035_151380105_18877035,11810901__listProd

SubTotal $299.990 Chilean pesos.
SubTotal: 549.482 USD

Total: $ 5.499.900 Chilean pesos.
Total: USD 9,693.466

|communication=Matucana 100 Cultural Center,
where the media lab located, has a flow of 300,000 to 450,000 people
annually. (www.m100.cl/transparencia_voluntaria_observatorio_publico.php)

The Cutural Centre Matucana 100 has an area of Education, which is
particularly active in organizing guided tours for students, aged
between 15-18 years, belonging to the municipalities that are adjacent
to the Cultural Center.

In parallel the Cultural Centre organizes exhibitions of film, video,
art and rides and theater performances. Beside its linked to other
cultural centers state, and it is constantly linked with academics,
artists and actors as many of them are selected to carry out activities
in Matucana 100.
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