Arya Grigaliunas sat on the floor of the Storytime Room at Winter Park Public Library on Sunday and swiped her fingers back and forth across the screen of a purple-cased iPad. The digital movements ...

Jefferson Middle School fifth graders Cameron Micciche, Dylan Gazdak, Nathan Houghwot, Reiley Kolstee and Haileigh Peterson work on a DASH coding challenge during Julie Livengood’s ACCEL enrichment ...

Xiaomi is producing a plastic toy robot that you can assemble into different forms, and control with an app. Called the Toy Block, the coding toy appears to rely on Lego-like pieces. The kit will come ...

A startup called Wonder Workshop is teaching kids how to code using Swift. Founded in 2012, Wonder Workshop makes toy robots, called Dash and Dot, that kids can control with programs they create using ...

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of stories about ways in which students are benefiting from the Sonoma Valley Education Foundation’s Classroom Grants. Five brand-new miniature robots ...

Second and third grade students at Bon Air Elementary School in Lower Burrell are celebrating March Madness this week — but with a ping-pong basketball, a plexiglass court, paper displays of defenders ...

An education technology company that produces a pair of robots for use by kids has just released lessons to help young students learn how to code. The in-house education team of Wonder Workshop, which ...

Apple has teamed up with Wonder Workshop to teach students Swift, an easy-to-use programming language developed by Apple. The startup’s Dash and Dot robots – currently used in more than 8,500 schools ...

Toy robots are nothing new. In the 1980s, the R2D2-like Tomy Verbot or the clunky Milton Bradley Big Trak let kids program their movements or actions using voice commands or a keypad. The marketing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of learning, work and human development. Tynker. “We have been hard at work this summer to revamp the ...

Pretty much as with any other language, learning to code seems to get increasingly difficult the older you are—for every app or start-up idea that you’ve had over the years that went unrealized, you ...