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 ...
The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people thought about ...
Recently, I spoke at the SXSWedu conference in Austin about the opportunity to teach coding across university disciplines. Computer programming is quickly becoming an expected 21st century literacy, ...
One sunny summer morning this month, a group of 20 teenage girls gathered in a conference room in the sleek offices of a tech company in New York. It was their fifth week of coding camp, and they were ...
You might think coding is a novel trend that doesn’t have other applications beyond programming, but coding offers many connections to multiple subjects, with the added benefit of reinforcing ...
Despite the rapid spread of coding instruction in grade schools, there is some concern that creative thinking and other important social and creative skills could be compromised by a growing focus on ...
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has mocked the idea of teaching children the basics of computer programming in primary school, as children will not need such skills until they reach working age.
A Los Angeles startup called codeSpark has raised $4.1 million in seed funding for web and mobile games that teach kids how to code, even before they know how to read and write effectively.
In collaboration with Disney, Kano launched a coding kit based around Frozen II. The kit includes a Bluetooth sensor that you can build and then use to control creations. The kit aims to teach coding ...