Scratch Community Blocks

Just as the design of Logo by Papert and others was fundamentally shaped to support details of the constructionist theory of learning—rather than merely part of an attempt to turn children into programmers—the shift in the locus of data analysis from adults to children is only one visible feature of our approach as designers. Beyond this obvious shift lie two broad goals that parallel key features of successful constructionist learning toolkits in general. Those features are the ability to support learning through making in a social context and the ability to support self-reflection and learning about learning.