In this episode I unpack Coenraad et al.’s (2021) publication titled “The effects of providing starter projects in open-ended Scratch activities,” which compares two groups of students to determine the impact of Scratch starter projects on student creativity.

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00:00 Intro

00:46 Abstract

01:44 My single sentence summary

02:35 Theory and prior work

03:54 Findings

04:15 Finding 1

04:36 Finding 2

05:14 Finding 3

05:39 Finding 4

06:09 Finding 5

08:30 Finding 6

08:58 Finding 7

09:07 Finding 8

09:16 Summary of findings

10:14 Lingering questions and thoughts

10:19 How does either approach impact cognitive load for novice Scratchers?

10:35 How does either approach impact creativity?

11:25 What kind of balance do you strive for with your projects?

13:00 Outro