Kids are spending more time than ever in front of screens. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, kids are now spending an average of seven hours a day on passive screen time including watching TV, playing video games, or watching YouTube. The research on how this is affecting our kids is troubling. Dr. Delaney Ruston of Stony […]
Is Computer Coding for Kids a Fad or an Essential New Literacy? Global interest in kids coding is growing exponentially. There are a number of reasons for this trend, ranging from parental concerns about the robot apocalypse and its effects on unemployment, to reports of massive job growth in the tech sector. According to some […]
My daughter is growing up in a radically different world than the one I grew up in. By age 3, she was successfully navigating drag and drop coding games on an iPad and solving puzzle games on my phone. Meanwhile, I didn’t get my introduction to computing until middle school on the then revolutionary Apple II. The […]
