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 ...

Every era demands—and rewards—different skills. In different times and different places, we have taught our children to grow vegetables, build a house, forge a sword or blow a delicate glass, bake ...

To teach someone a dance, you break it down into a series of moves, like, “Step left, step right, spin around, repeat.” With Mia & Codie, a new preschool series that aims to teach the basics of coding ...

One sunny summer morning this month, a group of 20 teenage girls gathered in a conference room in the sleek offices of a tech company in New York. It was their fifth week of coding camp, and they were ...

Soon after I wrote my last article on Edsurge “Where Does Tech-ed Belong in Edtech?,” advocating for the need for computer science education, there was a surprising amount of activity in this ...

A few years ago, computer programming for kids was a niche subject that only children of select parents were exposed to. Fast-forward to today, where coding for kids has embedded itself into many ...

In his first lesson in computer coding, Bozeman third-grader Carter Chapo learned how to give simple directions to move a figure on a laptop computer screen through a staircase maze. “Woo hoo! I ...