If you're a parent, then chances are you've heard endless debates about how screen time affects children. And while it's always a good idea to encourage your kids to put down their phones, tablets, ...

Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow. The instructions might just be "turn this graphic by one degree each second", or ...

How can I use Google Project Bloks to teach kids to code? Teaching kids to code is a big problem for modern teachers, and parents (not to mention kids themselves). There are lots of initiatives to ...

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 ...

Microsoft today unveiled Code Builder for Minecraft: Education Edition, a new tool that will help kids learn how to code by manipulating the blocky open world of Minecraft. Code Builder is a tool in ...

The code is horizontal, and runs from left to right, so it's easy for kids to grasp. Plus, the modules are icon-, not text-based, so you don't have to know how to read. What I really like about the ...

All aboard the learn-to-code train! As another holiday season looms and kids everywhere start clamouring for shiny stuff, we’ve got you covered with a bumper edition of our annual STEM gift guide.

Why do you quit? What ultimately makes you throw up your hands on a project and say you’ve had enough? We’re not going to dig too deeply into the psychology of failure here, but for many, reaching ...

If you hope your kid will grow up to become a star developer, the earlier you can get their brains thinking in code, the better. At the same time, many parents try to limit how much time their ...

In 2014, Apple introduced a new programming language called Swift. Though that might not seem like much to everyday users like you and me, this announcement was actually a pretty big deal for the ...

Google wants to encourage more kids to learn how to write computer programs. Monday’s “doodle” — a special logo design placed on Google’s homepage — is the first one ever to feature a programmable ...

“Coding should be taught as a fundamental skill, just as reading, writing, and math are,” says Wonder Workshop founder and CEO Vikas Gupta. “We can’t even imagine what coders in 10, 15 years will be ...