Kids coding
BitsBox Review: Everything You Need to Know in 2020
BitsBox Review: Everything You Need to Know in 2020 If you’ve been looking for resources to help your child or student learn how to code, you’ve probably stumbled across a variety of options. There’s also a fair chance that you’ve heard about BitsBox at some point in your journey! Here at CodaKid, we…
Read MoreOsmo Review: Everything You Need to Know in 2020
Osmo Review: Everything You Need to Know in 2020 When we review products and software that teach coding for kids, we set aside several hours to observe our students interacting with each product or website. In the case of Osmo, I have personally spent over a year observing my six year old daughter…
Read MoreCode.org Review: Everything You Need to Know in 2020
Everything You Need to Know about Code.org in 2020 If you’ve been looking for resources to help your child learn how to code, you’ve probably stumbled across a variety of options. There’s also a fair chance that you’ve heard about Code.org at some point in your journey! Here at CodaKid, this is one…
Read MoreA Beginner’s Guide to Teaching Kids Coding (Even When You Don’t Know How to Code)
A Beginner’s Guide to Teaching Kids Coding Kids coding is growing rapidly in popularity as more and more parents and educators see that it is an important 21st century skill best taught early and often. Too often quality coding options are not available in many towns, cities, and even countries. Many parents and…
Read MoreScratch vs CodaKid: Which Kids Coding Website is Best for Your Child?
Scratch vs CodaKid: Which Kids Coding Website is Best for Your Child? Earlier this fall, we took a deep dive into kids coding websites Tynker and CodaKid, both Parents’ Choice Gold Award winners and CODiE Finalists for Best Coding and Computational Thinking Solution. This week we will compare CodaKid and MIT Media Lab’s Scratch,…
Read MoreTynker vs CodaKid Review: Which Kids Coding Website is Best for Your Child?
Tynker vs CodaKid Review: Which Kids Coding Website is Best for Your Child? In the world of online kids coding education, there are several different strategies used to teach kids how to program. Today we are going to take a deep dive into Tynker and CodaKid, both CODiE Finalists for Best Coding and Computational…
Read MoreTop 5 Myths About Kids Coding Exposed (Don’t Let These Dissuade You From Teaching Your Kids to Code)
Top 5 Myths About Kids Coding Exposed According to Google Trends, interest in coding for kids has skyrocketed over the past 5 years. Parents have taken note of the massive, unmet demand for computer programming skills in the labor market, and administrators and teachers are beginning to respond. Taking matters into their…
Read More8 Practical Tips for Parents Who Want to Teach Their Kids to Code
Whether you have a career in computer science or whether you are a newbie that is interested in supporting your child’s interests, the art of teaching the basics of programing to kids can be a challenging task. Common questions that we encounter running a successful online kids coding academy are numerous. When is the best age…
Read MoreWhy Kids Should Learn Computer Programming (And 5 Quick Tips to Help Them Get Started)
Today’s kids have remarkably different childhoods than previous generations. Naturally, just like Baby Boomers or other generations of the past, youngsters in the 21st century are raised by helpful parents and family members, while also becoming subject to the influences from complex socio-economic and cultural factors of their time. But children today are experiencing an influence that…
Read More10 Reasons Why Your Kids Should Learn to Code This Year
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…
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