“Kids are learning to code. But more importantly, they are coding to learn,” said Mitch Resnick in a recent TED Talk presentation, “Let’s Teach Kids to Code.” Resnick is Director of the MIT Media Lab ...

There was a time when computers were far too expensive to let mere students use them. In those days, we wrote fake programs for fictitious machines and checked them by hand. That wasn’t fun, but it ...

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Kids are obsessed with computer games, spending countless hours in front of screens. Few know how those games work, and even fewer could create them themselves. But kids at Brookside Elementary in ...

Thanks to the plethora of start-ups now thriving in Silicon Valley and other tech-savvy cities, software developers have been in super-high demand of late. What better way to prepare your kid to ...

For five years, Coding with Kids has taught students as young as 5 the basics of computer science through games and activities. TODAY’s Sheinelle Jones checks it out to see what makes the program so ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Mitchel Resnick, ...

Researchers in Massachusetts created a basic computer coding app they say is the first designed specifically for children as young as 5. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — This computer programming app is so easy to ...

From beating the best human players at chess, to flying planes, to running stock market transactions, computers are now used in virtually every facet of modern-day life. But children aren't being ...

For Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 7-13), the nonprofit Code.org has helped organize nearly 200,000 "Hour of Code" events around the world. It's advocating for computer coding as a basic ...