The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people thought about ...
My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. Their favorite app? ScratchJr, MIT's ...
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One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...
Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in “Hour of code” activities, helping them become active, rather than passive users of technology and starting learning that ...
Early coding skills give kids an advantage for tech-related jobs. Coding could help shape the future of education. Kids learn logical thinking, adaptability, and problem-solving through coding that ...
Craig Foster’s dream as a young person was to have a children’s center to help kids play and learn at the same time. It was an idea that took years to take a definite shape, said the former Army ...
With as fast moving as technology is these days, coding has become almost as essential to a child’s education as math and reading. Unfortunately, not every school is teaching computer programming just ...
Many consider coding the new digital literacy, and families across the world are trying to catch their kids up. It’s no surprise that coding school franchises are growing to meet the demand. “Kids ...
On a recent late-night formula run, I passed by a large display of books about teaching children to code. I have seen these books around, but never such a large display directed toward elementary-aged ...
It’s been more than a year since University of Virginia alumna Sarah Lau and several of her former McIntire School of Commerce classmates taught coding to students at Charlottesville’s Walker Upper ...