Audio: Elementary School Students Respond to Programming in Scratch

In this eight-minute podcast, students in Karen Randall's 5th and 6th grade home room class at Expo Elementary School in St. Paul, Minnesota discuss their early experiences with Scratch, offer advice to teachers who want to begin teaching Scratch and ponder the value of learning Scratch even if they're not planning to become programmers when they grow up.

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