🥁 Scratch is now available in Hindi thanks to the tireless efforts of volunteers from around the world who commit their time and energy to making creative coding available to more students! #Scratch #Coding #CreativeCoding #Hindi #India #Education #Learning #Teaching

Thank you PanchaTANTRA Programming for the getting started guide available in Hindi! Check it out! ow.ly/5kH450Q4LrG

This 🧵is about developing human capital for innovation in schools, which is also my job market paper 📄 Please see the full paper here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/… Thank you, Jennifer Doleac, for finding me and sharing it. It encouraged me to write this thread.

💡 One Surprising Finding: I find that innovative ability is not correlated with academic or cognitive outcomes, highlighting its distinct nature as a skill. This is in stark contrast to previous literature, which suggests that inventors at the frontier of innovation have high..

🎯 The future of education and workforce development hinges on integrating higher-order skills effectively into existing pedagogy, and I am glad to contribute to this discourse. I leave you with an example from a student team that I liked quite a bit:

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Amazing reminder to register for #ScratchConference2024 !

Happy birthday, ScratchJr! 🎉 Thanks for bringing playful creative coding to the youngest learners worldwide for the past decade!

Welcome, explorers! Scratch Camp 2024: Wonders of Nature is here! 🌱🏕️🌻 You're invited to celebrate Earth's diverse ecosystems and natural wonders with 3 weeks of nature-themed project prompts. Kick off the celebration in our Rainforest Adventures studio! scratch.mit.edu/studios/354776…