Coding has become an essential skill in today's digital world, and it's no longer limited to adults or professionals. Increasingly, kids are being introduced to coding at a young age to foster their development and equip them with valuable skills for the future. In this article, we will explore why...
If you want to give your kid every opportunity to succeed, it’s hard to argue with teaching them to code. Some of the wealthiest and most influential people of our time began programming young, and who wouldn’t want that kind of future for our kids?Yesterday, we reviewed Hopscotch, an iPad...
Coding boot camps have soared in popularity since their inception in the early 2010s. Course Report, an organization that conducts yearly market studies on boot camps, reports that nearly 25,000 coding boot camp graduates entered the job market in 2020 — up 39% from the previous year. With the growth in popularity, however, has...
Most parents are aware of the potential career benefits of knowing how to code. Parents mistakenly believe that coding is something kids should begin doing in high school and college. Rarely is a parent or even educators aware of what coding is actually teaching. Most people only see a potential...
Artificial intelligence is topping headlines. Whether it's self-driving cars or Alexa storing your grocery preferences, it seems that AI is finding its way in to just about everything these days, and the implications for daily life and work over the next decade are likely to be significant. Many jobs are...
There is no question that the future is “The Internet of Things, IoT for Kids. While the concept may seem complex, the basics of IoT are pretty simple. Objects that we interact with everyday (including phones, watches, thermostats, speakers, lightbulbs, etc) are all connected to the internet. This allows them to...
The Samsung Developer Conference brought together thousands of developers, technologists, business leaders, innovators, designers, and content creators to network and learns about the next wave of intelligent technology. The kids and the teens of this digital era are assumed to be fluent in various digital tools. However, the ability to...
The line between toy and tech tool barely exists anymore, as companies increasingly turn hardware hacking and programming into a fun kids' play. London-based Kano, one of the hottest (and newest) of the technological child whisperers, wants to bring that youthful exuberance to everyone—young and old alike.Kickstarted into existence in...
In the past 50 years, no fictional time-traveling humanoid alien has done more to secure humanity's past and present than the Gallifreyan Time Lord known as The Doctor. Now in his 12th incarnation (or 13th, if you count the War Doctor), he teams with his most fearsome foe to secure humanity's...
All the cool kids write Node.js. But the rich kids? They're into COBOL. According to an ITWorld report, college students that take COBOL classes earn as much as $10,000 more in their first jobs than their Go-slumming hipster friends. Even though COBOL is a programming relic of enterprise systems gone by.See...
The new narrative in education, echoed from Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C., is: “Everyone should learn to code.” But something's getting lost in translation between technologists and parents of students around the country.Let’s get this out of the way: Not everyone needs to learn how to code. Coding is just...
Coding is all the rage these days. Students of all ages and adults already in the workforce are increasingly encouraged to learn programming. Even President Obama said everyone should learn to code. There are countless resources that offer the opportunity to learn different skills. From free online classes through services like Codecademy...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.Last January marked the launch of Code.org, a nonprofit that promotes computer-science education. Code.org launched Hour Of Code, a nationwide campaign that urged Americans to learn how to program. President Obama even recorded a video...
ReadWriteShop is an occasional series about the intersection of technology and commerce.An early start learning science, technology, engineering, and math—what educators formally, though clunkily, call STEM—can make a huge impact on a kid’s entire life. People with technical degrees tend to find better paying jobs, and those technical jobs remain in...
Learning to code is all the rage these days, but not in one place that matters a lot: U.S. schools.U.S. students already significantly lag their global counterparts where math and science skills are concerned. But computer science is in even worse shape: Of 12 technical subjects examined in a recent study by...
Sixteen-year-old Ethan Eirinberg was determined to give teens new resources for learning to code even if he had to build them himself. So he founded CreateHS, a global coding contest that prompts high schoolers to hone their coding skills by developing innovative new apps.A teen from the Chicago suburbs, Eirinberg had looked...
Learning to code can empower you to become master of your own (Web) domain, oand maybe even land you a new, high paying job. So what are you waiting for?Sure, a lot of us put off learning to code because it’s intimidating or we feel we don’t have the time....
Programming has always been a bit of a boy’s club. Now four startups are turning the tables. As the coding education bubble swells, there’s room for some companies to target more specific audiences, including women exclusively. Fifty percent of the female population isn’t exactly a niche group, but it’s not a...
Unemployment among youth of color is widespread & complex; can a tech education startup change things?The White House announced new participation in a jobs initiative yesterday from fast-growing technical education website Codecademy, as well as some venerable social justice oriented organizations Level Playing Field Institute and College Bound Brotherhood, a...
The Google Open Source Program is announcing a new outreach effort, aimed at 13- to 18-year-old students around the world. Google Code-in will operate in a similar fashion to Google's Summer of Code, giving students the opportunity to work in open-source projects. Google Code-in will match students to mentoring organizations...
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