The government is behind it. In his 2016 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said that the U.S. should offer “every student the hands-on computer science and math classes that make them ...
Imagine using what children love to teach them important life skills. For example, video games to teach problem-solving, critical-thinking skills along with science, technology, engineering and ...
The education of today should equip students with the skills to make a difference in tomorrow’s world. As technology continues to change the way we live, work, and interact, nobody can guarantee what ...
At the age of 14, I landed my first summer job teaching coding to kids. I hopped on the bus for the half-hour ride to my school, where I taught elementary school children how to write very simple ...
A couple of years ago, as an 8-year-old trying to learn to code, a student named Theo was frustrated. Theo happens to be blind, and the standard tools designed to teach children to code rely heavily ...
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Teaching kids to bend computers and robots to their will to make their dreams come true is the goal of a summer coding camp in Las Vegas and Henderson. Code Central leaders say kids ...
Google is now offering access to five games controlled entirely by Morse code, thanks to a 48 hour “hackathon,” and a partnership with Adaptive Design Association. The games use the Morse code ...
Historically, learn-to-code efforts have provided opportunities for the few, but new efforts are aiming to be inclusive. A decade ago, tech powerhouses the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon ...
At the upper bounds of education, in the post-college and career training universes, we think of computer coding as a skill. It’s a thing you can learn how to do that will make you more valuable as an ...
Nawroz Pirani moved to the United States from Karachi, Pakistan 20 years ago, when he was 14 years old, eventually settling in Chicago. He never really knew his father, who died from a heart attack at ...