MindScratch
Description
️ 🖼Tool name:
MindScratch
🔖 Tool classification:
An AI-powered educational tool for creating Visual Programming projects in the classroom to support students' interactive and creative learning.
️ ✏What does it offer?
Allows the teacher to define the learning objectives and the basic components that the project should contain.
Divide the project into subtasks and generate a mind map showing characters, logic, and code.
Produce multimedia assets (text, images, audio) by interacting with the student to support creativity.
Track student progress through the mind maps and help the teacher focus on the points they need.
⭐ What do you actually deliver based on user experience?
Improves students' ability to achieve learning goals compared to traditional programming.
Enhance creativity, project quality, and the development of computational thinking skills.
Create richer mind maps and more nodes in projects using the tool.
🤖 Does it include automation?
Yes, the tool uses AI to automatically generate project content, divide tasks, and produce multimedia assets, reducing the teacher's manual workload.
💰 Pricing model:
There is no officially published free or paid plan, as the tool is still in the realm of academic research.
Access may require contacting the authors or the university for a hands-on experience.
🧭 How to access the tool:
Read the research paper for details of the tool's functionality and features.
Contact the research team or the university (University of Warwick) to try the tool in practice.
🔗 Experience Link / Research Paper:
MindScratch on arXiv