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

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 ...

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 ...

Nikole Vaughn remembers breaking down in tears in her early days as a programmer, hammering away late into the night on code that just wouldn’t run. She was fresh out of college, in her first year ...

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 ...

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.

Nine-year-old Masha stares at a computer screen, absorbed in a racing game. Unlike many parents, Svetlana is keen to encourage her, because not only is Masha playing this game – she created it. Masha ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- When most of us were in school, we took science classes like biology and chemistry, but computer science may be even more important for today's kids. Yet nearly 90% of ...

For years, coding has been thought of as a useful skill for children to learn. It’s integrated into computer science classes and a number of organizations are dedicated to helping kids code. But now, ...

“Having the knowledge of how all this technology is made, especially since a lot of it is made through coding, is just such a useful tool in your life,” said Meenakshi Dwaraka, who co-founded the ...

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 ...