The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people thought about ...

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Professor Marina Bers, chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, has been teaching the course Technological Tools for Playful Learning every spring for the 20 years ...

Robots are taking over John Harris Elementary, but don’t worry, the students are in control. Gifted-education students are programming land rovers to get through an obstacle course of sorts. The ...

MIDLAND, Texas — For kids interested in sports or music, they have plenty of avenues to improve their craft. The athletes have their pick of the litter when it comes to sports. Football, baseball, ...

A couple of years back, Mattel and Tynker partnered up to produce programming lessons based on Hot Wheels and Monster High. Now the two companies are expanding their partnership to launch seven new ...

Learning to code before learning to read? Kids as young as kindergarten have been learning the basic skills of programming at Sunset Elementary School in Brentwood. At the school Thursday it may have ...

Writing computer code is an important tool scientists use to learn more about climate change. Climatologists use code to make models that can help predict, mitigate, or even resolve climate disasters.

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 ...

Mehul Shah and Michael Jones see the benefits of teaching kids to code daily. Shah owns theCoderSchool locations in Raleigh and Cary. Jones is a code coach at the Raleigh location, part of a national ...

At the upper bounds of education, in the post-college and career training universes, we think of computer coding as a skill. It’s a thing you can learn how to do that will make you more valuable as an ...