Kids should learn programming as well as reading and writing
Here's Mitch Resnick of the MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten Group (whence the kids' programming language Scratch comes) doing a TedX talk about the role of programming in education, arguing that...
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Super Scratch Programming Adventure! - guide to kids' programming language
Scratch, an excellent and free drag-and-drop programming language for kids developed at MIT, has a new web-based interface. My 10-year-old daughter Jane uses it to create puzzles, games, and...
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Learn to Program with Scratch - tutorial to kids' programming language
Scratch is a free drag-and-drop programming language for kids, developed at MIT. My 10-year-old daughter Jane uses it to create puzzles, games, and interactive cartoons. In 2012 I reviewed a book...
View ArticleKickstarting Scratchjr: Scratch programming for under-eights!
Mitchel Resnick runs the MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten lab, from which came the amazing, kid-friendly Scratch programming language. He writes, "We just launched a Kickstarter campaign for...
View ArticleScratch creators around the world collaborate on "I'd like to teach the world...
Mitchel Resnick, founder of the amazing, kid-friendly programming project Scratch, writes, "Scratch community members from around the world joined together to create a collaborative project: 'I'd like...
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Help your kids learn to code with "The Official ScratchJr Book"
ScratchJr is a simple, free, tablet based programming language kids can use to make simple games and animations. The Official ScratchJr Book has been a great guide for my daughter and I. I first heard...
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Lifelong Kindergarten: how to learn like a kid, by the co-creator of Scratch
Scratch predates the widespread adoption of networks and computers that kids could freely use, but from the start it was designed to be a collaborative tool, taught through a network of "Computer...
View ArticleMachine learning projects for kids
Dale Lane's Machine Learning for Kids project uses extensions to the popular Scratch programming environment to teach the basics of machine learning to children. It aims to make mastering...
View ArticleKickstarting the Makerphone: an open-source hardware phone kit, programmable...
Circuitmess's fully funded Makerphone kickstarter is raising money to produce open source hardware smartphone kits to teach kids (and grownups) everything from soldering to programming. The Makerphone...
View ArticleScratch is hiring an executive director
Scratch creator Mitchel Resnick -- head of the MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindgergarten Group -- writes, "Until now, Scratch has been developed by my research group at the MIT Media Lab. In the coming...
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Software for using your head movements to control your cursor
Oz Ramos is the creator of Handsfree.js, a software library that you can use to add face-, hand- and pose-tracking to any app built in Javascript. It looks incredibly fun and I'm gonna tinker with it...
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