Apple has partnered with Tynker, a San Francisco-based STEM education platform, to release two new game-based programming lessons aimed to help kids learn how to code. The new Space Cadet and Dragon ...

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Earlier this year, Mattel announced that it was partnering with Tynker to bring Barbie-themed coding lessons to young kids. As of today, six free coding experiences are now available as is a new ...

One of the nice surprise introductions at WWDC was Swift Playgrounds, a new app coming to the iPad and iOS 10 that will help teach kids (or anyone, really) how to code with Swift. Apple introduced ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Provided by CoderDojo Denver Learning to code is not about homework at CoderDojo Denver. The volunteer-run organization gives children a chance to get ...

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 ...