Along the way, I began to develop an understanding about not only the process for making a miniature golf course, but the general process for making anything: how to start with an initial idea, develop preliminary plans, create a first version, try it out, ask other people to try it out, revise plans based on what happens – and keep doing that, over and over. By working on my project, I was gaining experience with the Creative Learning Spiral.

How can we help young people develop as creative thinkers so that they’re prepared for life in this ever-changing world?

Express your ideas with the world.

Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.

I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.

With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

Express your ideas with the world