ScratchJr vs BookTraps

With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games. By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy. With ScratchJr, children don’t just learn to code, they code to learn. ScratchJr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language (http://scratch.mit.edu), used by millions of people (ages 8 and up) around the world. The ScratchJr interface and programming language were redesigned to make them appropriate for younger children’s cognitive, personal, social, and emotional development. ScratchJr is a collaboration between the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab, the Developmental Technologies research group at Tufts University, and the Playful Invention Company. The ScratchJr project has received generous financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL-1118664), Scratch Foundation, LEGO Foundation, and British Telecommunications. If you enjoy using this free app, please consider making a donation to the Scratch Foundation (www.scratchfoundation.org), a nonprofit organization that provides ongoing support for ScratchJr. We appreciate donations of all sizes, large and small.

BookTraps – Children’s Book Creator - Booktraps enables children to create books with their own stories - Providing an online tool that encourages creative and innovative thinking. - Very easy tools that allow users to create their own stories without any extra help - Sharing your stories online and offline - Your own characters based on your appearance can make you are the main character in your book. Do you have young children? If you do, you must have noticed how much they love to write and draw pictures. It’s the way they express themselves. Booktraps is a program that helps children make their own books with their own stories. They are the authors. Also, they can make up their own characters based on themselves. Then they print the stories at home and create mini-books. They can even be shared as e-books. The sharing can lead to even more creativity. They develop their creativity and logical thinking. And they learn to collaborate with other kids by sharing and discussing their stories.