BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kuching BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20170325T080000 RDATE:20380119T111407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:Asia/Kuching +08 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4c84643ef0e6e5b98a5a38830696318e CATEGORIES:Stories CREATED:20180326T125827 SUMMARY:FCSIT Organised Scratch Programming For Kids DESCRIPTION:
KOTA SAMARAHAN, 19-20 MARCH 2018: span>Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Faculty of Scie nce Computer and Information Technology (FCSIT), held a Scratch Programming -Program for Kids on March 19&20 recently. Forty school children aged 10-12 years old attended the two-day event, which aims to teach basic “Scr atch programming" as well as to improve digital literacy skills. The Comput ational Thinking (CT) and Computer Science (CS) skills were introduced into Malaysia primary school curriculum last year, with the intention to expose the school children to digital technology and educate them to become "digi tal makers". Following this initiative, the program aims to attract primary school children to CT and CS through UNIMAS Corporate Social Responsibilit y (CSR) program such as this, "Scratch Programming for Kids".
The program included introdu ction to Scratch; a drag and drop, block-based, snap-together programming language. Kids were taught how to create simple animations, designed their own digital characters and developed computer games. Elements of CT were em bedded through unplugged activities in the class, where kids were given fun problems to solve.
The program was conducted by FCSIT faculty lecturers, who were facilita ted by faculty students.
The UNIMAS Faculty o f Computer Science and Information Technology, was chosen as one of the hub for MyDigital Maker (MYDM) CPD Center under the collaboration with Malaysi a Digital Economy Corporation (MDec). The role of MYDM CPD Center is to in crease the readiness in the digital knowledge through computational thinkin g (CT) and computer science (CS) teaching certificate program for teachers, outreach program based on digital making, programming and robotics for sch ool students and as a reference point for Digital Maker in East Malaysia (S arawak) zone.
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