As someone who’s had my children in the last decade, I can tell you that the pushy-parent movement sometimes makes me feel like I’m failing my kids because they can’t code. I’ve always been a bit ...

Strive is an online learning platform that teaches kids to code, but it wants to do more than just that. Developed with an active learning model that lets students take the lead in classes, Strive ...

Coding is now as essential as math and science. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be more than one million unfilled tech jobs in just two short years. That means now more ...

Kids thrill to the power of making their toys do their bidding, yet they also delight in toys that surprise them with new responses. These toys for the very youngest technoheads-to-be tempt kids into ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has been incredibly successful at sparking all sorts of creativity via its low cost microcomputers, which arrived in the market back in 2012. Its core electronics are also ...

Forget everything you think you know about programming: the long hours behind a screen, the lines of code stacking up, all that time spent debugging someone else's mess. Koov makes learning to ...

Many consider coding the new digital literacy, and families across the world are trying to catch their kids up. It’s no surprise that coding school franchises are growing to meet the demand. “Kids ...

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Fifteen years ago, I started this column with the advice that "computers are not a passing fad -- they are here to stay." In this, my last column as USA Today's Kid-Tech Columnist, my advice is: teach ...

Playing with toys that teach coding isn't going to guarantee your child will create the next Facebook and amass Zuckerburg-esque fortunes. However, things like the Sphero SPRK+ or Google Bloks could ...

Writing computer code is an important tool scientists use to learn more about climate change. Climatologists use code to make models that can help predict, mitigate, or even resolve climate disasters.

BEIJING — Liu Shang tilted his head and sighed before tapping a plump finger on his computer’s keyboard. When asked if there was a problem the sixth-grader shrugged, barely looked up from the screen ...