After taking the coding workshop on the scratch program I was pleasantly surprised at how fun using the program was and how many things you can do with it. I found this program really important because how many kids say they wanna be a video game designer when they grow nowadays? soooooo many! So, I found this program would be super appealing to kids with those interests even just to explore how coding works to create sequences. What I found for myself though was that it was hard to stick to their step-by-step instructions and I found myself just wanting to just play with the program and explore the different modes for myself. If I were to bring this program into the classroom I think I would go off of this experience and give my students a little bit of playtime just to explore it before we went through the practice sequence. For myself, I was blown away by how cool this program was and I was telling my partner about it he said he remembered using it in grade seven. I was surprised that this program had been around so long already.

I do think this program would work well for those older elementary grades such as 5,6,7 as far as accessibility and understanding on the students part as well as connection to the curriculum. I believe that younger grade such ad 2-3 could have fun exploring and could navigate it alright just with the amount of technology kids deal with on a daily basis now but I do not know if I would base lessons on this program at that age unless the students showed a want to explore it and use it more. I would definitely consider bringing this program into my future teaching but most likely not more upcoming practicum just because I am in a lower grade (Grade two) and I would like to have a better understanding of the program myself before I teach others to use it. Overall, I enjoyed learning about this program and I definitely can see the benefits of using it in the classroom.