From Story Pirates, awesome kid and coding expert Colin shares different elements he uses to code in Scratch as well as one of the games he has programmed! Camp TV is available to stream on pbs.org ...
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 ...
The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people thought about. But today, parents and teachers know that teaching kids to code has lots ...
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 ...
There has been a concerted effort nationwide to bring coding curriculum to young students, with a plethora of examples ranging from extracurricular programs to lessons embedded into core studies. Now ...
AMY, THANK YOU. NEW TODAY. WE SURE HOPE CHILDREN ARE HAVING A FUN SUMMER DOING WHAT THEY ENJOY MOST. FROM SWIMMING TO PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. BUT PULLING THOSE KIDS AWAY FROM TVS AND LAPTOPS MAY BE A ...
As someone who’s had my children in the last decade, I can tell you that the pushy-parent movement sometimes makes me feel like I’m failing my kids because they can’t code. I’ve always been a bit ...
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 ...
It’s been more than a year since University of Virginia alumna Sarah Lau and several of her former McIntire School of Commerce classmates taught coding to students at Charlottesville’s Walker Upper ...
Toy robots are nothing new. In the 1980s, the R2D2-like Tomy Verbot or the clunky Milton Bradley Big Trak let kids program their movements or actions using voice commands or a keypad. The marketing ...