BC's new Augustus Long Professor, Marina Bers is recognized for her work with children and technology Marina Umaschi Bers—former chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human ...

In my last EdSurge article, “Computer Science Goes Beyond Coding,” I wrote about the difference between coding and computer science, to help us understand what we mean by phrases like “Teach kids to ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of learning, work and human development. Schools around the world teach calculation. But computers do ...

We often imagine computational thinking as an esoteric skill; something for scientists and engineers, and not for the rest of us. As content director of the new PBS Kids series Work It Out Wombats!, ...

For better or worse, computing is pervasive, changing how and where people work, collaborate, communicate, shop, eat, travel, learn and quite simply, live. From the arts to sciences and politics, no ...

It's high time for students to move beyond an hour of coding exercises and learn computational thinking. That's the message of a new report from Digital Promise that examines what's important to know ...

Stephen Wolfram has been working on computing language paradigms for nearly thirty years. His products are well known in scientific and engineering circles. The company’s Mathematica was first ...

The Ministry of Education will introduce AI and Computational Thinking in the national curriculum from Grade 3, starting in ...

Kids love to try amazing things. One day they might want to bake a rainbow cake. The next day, they might want to build a sandcastle taller than they are. Many parents of preschoolers are all too ...