Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. It starts with a game of Robot Turtles, a board game by ...

The third annual Resolute Roboticon inter-school coding and robotics competition has awarded the best learners who performed to their best. The schools, from as far away as the UAE, participated in ...

Every tech and toy company, from Apple to Hasbro, has an educational coding offering these days. Sony’s Koov kit has been kicking around Japan for a while now, and should be pretty familiar to anyone ...

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 ...

World Coding Day was celebrated on 29 October and it’s worth asking what Foundation Phase teachers in South Africa really need from Coding and Robotics. The answer isn’t flashy kits or complex ...

In a transformative step toward bridging South Africa’s digital divide, Seseko, in partnership with Microsoft South Africa, has launched a powerful Robotics & Coding Programme that is reshaping the ...

Implementing a coding or robotics program can be challenging--here are key elements that can make the process easier K-12 teachers and administrators have been listening to policy makers and industry ...

This is a review of the third book sent to me recently by MIT Press, and the book is the best of the bunch. “Living With Robots,” by Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas is a good, non-technical book ...

Teachers or parents looking for a way for their children to learn more about coding robotics and electronics may be interested in a new programmable robot called Codey Rocky. Specifically created to ...

My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. Their favorite app? ScratchJr, MIT's ...