I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Universities are no strangers to innovating with technology. EdTech wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true. But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science.

THERE’S MORE TO computer programming than figuring out what inscrutable words like “augop” and “del_stmt” mean. Sure, you’ll have to master the vocabulary, as you do with any foreign language. But the ...

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 ...

Answer: Learning to code is the hot new basic skill parents want their children to learn. You will find coding being taught in more and more schools, but it definitely is not being taught in all ...

Coding is becoming an increasingly desirable skill in the modern world. There’s a growing consensus that children should be exposed to programming earlier and more often. “We’ve got to have our kids ...

PBS member stations will soon be able to help kids make their favorite characters move and talk with the PBS Kids ScratchJr app, which teaches kids basic concepts of coding and storytelling. Tablets ...

Osmo, an educational STEAM brand, has debuted a Coding Starter Kit that combines three coding bestsellers and features new hardware. In a new OnePoll-conducted survey of 2000 U.S. parents of ...

In a Rincon Valley Library classroom on a recent Friday, a group of Maria Carrillo High students asked almost 30 elementary schoolers how many of them had been to Disneyland. A few hands shot up. Then ...