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 ...
This series of sessions by Phil Sands takes us through a number of different coding options. Introduction to teaching coding: Are you new to teaching coding, or just thinking about starting to teach ...
Every child should have the opportunity to learn computer science.  Coding can be an expression of youth’s identity and their artistic selves. The iCode curriculum develops computational thinking, ...
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 ...
The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people thought about ...
A Los Angeles startup called codeSpark has raised $4.1 million in seed funding for web and mobile games that teach kids how to code, even before they know how to read and write effectively.
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. Last month, a few ...
Recently, I spoke at the SXSWedu conference in Austin about the opportunity to teach coding across university disciplines. Computer programming is quickly becoming an expected 21st century literacy, ...