“Kids are learning to code. But more importantly, they are coding to learn,” said Mitch Resnick in a recent TED Talk presentation, “Let’s Teach Kids to Code.” Resnick is Director of the MIT Media Lab ...

Scratch has a new sibling. The MIT Media Lab-developed programming environment intended for children recently welcomed ScratchJr into the world of kids' coding tools. The new release is actually a ...

The Google doodle team partnered with the Google Blockly team and MIT researchers to create "Coding with Carrots," its first-ever coding-game doodle. Google is marking the 50th anniversary of kids ...

Mitch Resnik, the creator of the super-simple Scratch programming language and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, gave a TEDx talk about the value of coding and computer ...

For most kids, Scratch is where the coding journey begins. But here's the thing — Scratch on its own isn't really a "class." It's a free, MIT-built creative tool with no lesson plan, no instructor, ...

An Irish primary teacher has been contacted by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a bid to use his coding work in a programming language. The US creators of the free ...

The publisher No Starch Press has just released The Official Scratch Coding Cards (Scratch 3.0), a deck of cards to help children get to grips with the introductory programming system from MIT. It may ...