As coding becomes an increasingly coveted skill, schools all over the world are deciding to teach their students how to code. This is a excellent idea, as having coding skills could pay huge dividends ...

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 ...

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 ...

Computer programing can be a valuable part of the K-12 curriculum. Pleasanton USD superintendent David Haglund thinks “programming is a mindset and a great foundation for math.” Haglund uses the first ...

You might think coding is a novel trend that doesn’t have other applications beyond programming, but coding offers many connections to multiple subjects, with the added benefit of reinforcing ...

There are many applications and websites to learn to code, but do you know what are the apps for teaching children coding skills? Today, children are spending so much time in front of their laptops, ...

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 ...

Since its release in 2011, Minecraft has captured the hearts and minds of today’s youth. With the recent release of MinecraftEDU school version, this popular game is rapidly becoming the most ...

To kick off a week at Coder Kids’ summer camp, college-age instructors engage students by showing one cool way coding can be used. Keying in basic back-end language, the teacher makes an on-screen ...