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 ...
Bitange Ndemo receives funding from the World Bank to conduct a review of the Digital Learning Program in Kenya. Across the world, the conversion of information into a digital format – also called ...
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 ...
The Development Technologies (DevTech) Research Group at Tufts is working to develop an iPad and Android application that teaches young children coding basics. "My research group at the MIT Media Lab ...
HUNTINGTON — When thinking about coding, one may not picture patterns, forensics or dancing as ways people can learn about computer programming, but those are just a few of the ways students at ...
Microsoft has announced a partnership with Code.org that will bring Minecraft into the education curriculum. Mojang, the Sweden-based game development studio that shot to prominence due to its work on ...
SOUTH OGDEN — Seventh grader Hayden Baker is a yellow belt, but he didn’t throw any kicks or punches to achieve the distinction. He learned the basics of developing games in JavaScript, a programming ...
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 ...
It’s a Sunday morning at East Dulwich Picturehouse in South London, and a group of three- and four-year-old children is playing in a backroom. But not with cars or dolls. Instead, they are learning ...
The Schalmo Family YMCA in Canal Fulton launched a coding and robotics summer program for children kindergarten through sixth grade. The program utilizes Ozobot Evo and Ozobot Crawler robotics kits to ...
Many schools aren’t teaching coding, despite 60% of parents thinking it’s an important skill for children to have, according to the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The education charity found more than 70% ...