Videogames are a waste of time. Well, not always. Sometimes they can teach you stuff, like honest-to-goodness computer programming skills. The trick is to make these educational games as interesting ...

Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in “Hour of code” activities, helping them become active, rather than passive users of technology and starting learning that ...

Some people slander retrocomputing as an old man’s game, just because most of those involved are more ancient than the hardware they’re playing with. But there are veritable children involved too — ...

New board games that teach code through concepts may help narrow the skills gap by making coding fun for all ages Earlier this month, I wrote about ThinkFun’s new programming game series. They ...

Computer programming is not usually taught to 8-year-olds. But a new system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turns building video games into child’s play. The system is called ...

Sometimes kids come back from summer vacation with an edge on their classmates. While other kids were off at the beach, 11-year-old Paige Silva of Union City was attending a youth technology training ...