Into the Driver's Seat

Google's free, video based computer science curriculum is designed for teachers with no prior CS knowledge.

Over the past decade, millions of kids around the world have used Scratch to code their own interactive games, stories, animations, and more. This outpouring of creativity inspires us to continue to extend and improve Scratch, so that kids everywhere have new opportunities to express themselves creatively with new technologies.

Today, we’re launching Scratch 3.0, a new generation of Scratch that expands how, what, and where kids can create with code. As we’ve tested prototypes of Scratch 3.0, we’ve been amazed by the projects that kids have made — like a hedgehog that speaks French, a hippopotamus that dances to hip-hop, and a soccer game you control with your shoe.

Code for Life is a free program that I learned about while attending the BETT Show last week. Code for Life has a programming interface based on Blockly. Anyone who has used Blockly or Scratch will immediately recognize the similarities when they launch Code for Life's programming interface.

Interfacing LCD to Arduino - Tutorial on how to interface arduino to lcd screen (16x2 lcd, 20x4 lcd) with arduino code/program, lcd pin diagram and circuit.

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This December will again host the Hour of Code, a one-hour introduction to programming designed to demystify the subject and show that anyone can be a maker, a creator, and an innovator. Last year,…

Coding and computer science have yet to make their way into every school curriculum in the U.S. But the country isn’t short on initiatives—such as Google’s Code Next program or the White House’s Obama era Computer Science For All campaign—which aim to change that.

And while these programs attempt to arm students will the ability to code, they sometimes overlook a critical skill that developers, computer science scholars and tech recruiters say is key to landing a job in their field: writing.

Brian is an elementary teacher in Ontario, Canada. When not teaching, coaching or blogging he is an active web developer.

Explore the online teaching tools we've rounded up for you in this list. There are 50 of them for lesson planning, assessment, collaboration, and more.

Codelabs is a free online platform for learning, understanding and practicing programming. It provides a supervised tutorial on the working of a programming language works and enables the user to learn a new programming language easily and quickly. The user can execute their programs in the browser driven programming labs. It is useful for beginners as well as programmers with advanced knowledge. Tutorials are well-organized, one-page articles that help users to learn the basics of some of the most widely used programming languages across the world.

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of micro:mag Issue 3! We’ve got an amazing Issue for you this time round, packed full of amazing articles by our awesome community. Here is a quick look at what we’ve got to offer this time round. Enjoy Issue 3! 10 Amazing micro:bit Projects! This issues Cover feature is “10 Amazing micro:bit Projects”. We’ve gathered together 10 of our favourite micro:bit projects we’ve seen doing the rounds of …

BBC Micro:Bit board was first announced in July 2015. Designed for STEM education, the board was then offered to UK schools in March 2016, and a few months later UK store would start selling it worldwide. It’s now available pretty much anywhere, and you can likely find it in a local store or online.

The Thai government must have seen this, and thought to themselves “If the British can do it, we can do it too!”, as the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) part of Thailand’s Ministry of Science and Technology designed KidBright32 board and courses to teach STEM to Thai students.

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The Root Robotics flagship robot looks a little bit like a miniature hexagonal Roomba — but instead of cleaning up messes, it shows kids how to code. Users can program it to draw, move, and sing through a mobile app. It’s demoing at the Consumer Electronics Show, and 50,000 Root robots will soon be teaching kids Python, JavaScript, and Swift in South Korea via a partnership with after-school coding academy Coding & Play. Starting in June, it will also be available to purchase for $200.

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

Teachers don't have to be geeks to use coding in elementary and primary grades to teach literacy, problem solving and collaboration. Here's how.

Do you like graphic novels or comic books? Are you interested in learning to code? If you answered, yes, then you'll love Dystopia 2153! This brand new, three-episode series teaches kids the basics of coding through a digital graphic novel. It connects 21st Century skills with the love of reading. Use code to solve puzzles that help the characters overcome obstacles and escape their dystopian world.

Are you wondering what coding means for your classroom? Join us for a look at how to include computational thinking into your teaching.

Explore the vocabulary of coding and the opportunities for offline activities. Showing cross-curricular links and real world application, this webinar will use both Discovery Education Coding and freely available resources to support the teaching and learning of computing.

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So instead of watching people jump on the coding bandwagon, we decided to write an article that discusses the benefits of learning how to code as a child.

Coding books for kids are a fun way to spark an interest in web design, game making and programming. Although much of this information is available online, presenting information in a book format can help kids improve their literacy skills, and give them an easy reference without having to search. Some of the books are ‘how to’ manuals, while others are more interactive workbooks. There are also younger kid-friendly “lift the flap” books, that encourage little hands to explore and learn. Here is a run down of 10 of the coolest coding books for young learners.

Ed tech company Learning.com is partnering with Codesters, a platform for K–12 computer science instruction, to develop EasyCode Pillars, an online interactive curriculum that incorporates coding challenges and game design into the classroom to cultivate students’ coding skills. This digital literacy resource is designed to offer students a dynamic, hands-on coding experience, while providing teachers with an easy instructional solution for use in the computer lab or in the classroom.