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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Schools such as Bluejacket-Flint Elementary in Shawnee are incorporating technological lessons into the curriculum by using innovation centers known as makerspaces. Students are encouraged to learn to ...
As we dive headfirst into our automated future, getting our kids interested in coding is becoming just as important as reading, writing and arithmetic. The latest project to join efforts from ...