Progress is being made towards that end at MacDonald Drive Elementary in St. John’s, where Grade 4 students are given the opportunity to learn scratch programming, a form of computer programming.

As a homeschooling parent, I'm a big fan of educational software and I've written quite about about various programs in the past. But, as a programmer, I'm also a big fan of any program that makes ...

How do I learn to program with Scratch? Scratch is an interactive environment tool created by MIT to help them teach programming concepts. You get a stage, with cartoon characters, and drag blocks ...

“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 ...

A computer coding tutorial program for eight to 13-year-olds was released five years ago – but now the team behind it is working on a version for three to eight-year-olds. Massachusetts Institute of ...

I’ll admit it. I have a lot of drones. Sitting at my desk I can count no fewer than ten in various states of flight readiness. There are probably another half dozen in the garage. Some of them cost ...