In India, parents are being aggressively sold the idea that their children must start coding at 4 or 5 or be future failures.
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eParenting used to mean keeping your kids safe on the Internet, however now it has a wider scope including parenting with the use of technology, and distance parenting. Curated by Peter Mellow |
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In India, parents are being aggressively sold the idea that their children must start coding at 4 or 5 or be future failures.
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The trend to teach coding in schools is exploding around the world, and Australian primary and secondary schools are the latest to join the bandwagon.
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Don’t focus only on teaching children how to code, researchers say. The more important things to learn include empathy, collaboration and problem-solving.
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Guide for parents and educators to introduce the benefits of coding skills for children. Learn how to get started with online courses and apps.
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"Don't teach your kids coding," says New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman. "Well - teach it if you want. But before you teach them coding
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Hi-tech toys are likely to be big sellers this Christmas, but can they be fun and educational?
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In a tiny agricultural town, coding has helped a young boy with autism develop his creativity as well find new interest in his studies.
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The emphasis on knowing Java and JavaScript could put students of color on the bottom rung of the tech workforce.
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Many parents want their children to learn to code. Increasingly, even those parents who don’t know computer programming are using games and apps to teach basic skills.
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Computer code is the next universal language, and its syntax will be limited only by the imaginations of the next generation of programmers. Linda Liukas is helping to educate problem-solving kids, encouraging them to see computers not as mechanical, boring and complicated but as colorful, expressive machines meant to be tinkered with. In this talk, she invites us to imagine a world where the Ada Lovelaces of tomorrow grow up to be optimistic and brave about technology and use it to create a new world that is wonderful, whimsical and a tiny bit weird.
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With computer science set to enter the school curriculum this September, Helena Pozniak examines how getting to grips with the subject is vital for all students
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In our latest issue of our iPad magazine, we talk about the importance and benefits of teaching kids how to code.
..kids will teach themselves how to use Scratch