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=**Week 3: Animation**=

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For this week's assignment, I had to create an animation. This was my first time creating one so I decided to have fun with it. I made mine through the use of Scratch software.

Using animation in the K-12 classroom would imply engaging our students in a way that is natural to them. Students today are digital natives. Therefore, they grew up with technology. Teaching our students through the use of animations would mean teaching students in an environment that they are familiar with. We, as educators, would finally be speaking their language.

Animation brings the “real world” to the classroom by exposing children to active learning. Children can learn new concepts through animations in a fun way that engages them while using more than one sense. This allows them to really comprehend the new information that they are being taught. For example, this week the 4th grade students at my school were learning about circuits in Science. They understood some of it after reading the information from the book. However, they understood it more when this information was accompanied by a computer animation showing all the parts of a circuit and what occurred as each part was connected. The students then did a lab. As they were doing the lab, they were able to explain the information thanks to the animation they had previously seen.

Link to animation on Scratch Website: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/klopeztechnology/1456172

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