MIT's Mitchel Resnick and Natalie Rusk have warned that trying to teach kids programming using logic puzzles is like teaching people to write using crosswords. Writing in the November Communications ...
My brother is five years old. As we know, around the age of three and four, children start to learn things and develop their minds. Therefore, this is the stage which is important to develop ...
Ryan Seashore starts off every CodeNow workshop with a simple request: Write out step-by-step instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Then a CodeNow teacher pretends to be a robot, ...
Teaching students about logic gates is often done in two parts, once on the whiteboard for the theory, and again on the breadboard for the practice. [shurik179] wasn’t a fan of the abstraction between ...
It was argued here recently by a professor of mathematics that algebra should be required of everyone in high school because it teaches how to think logically. Perhaps it does, but what an awful way ...
Allyson Bourke, writer of the June 24 letter, "Trump got caught," was a teacher and a shaper of young minds. Bourke exemplifies the trend in education these days of the preference for, and the ...
The Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence celebrate the most outstanding products that bring versatility, value, and innovative solutions to support effective teaching and learning. Judged by a panel ...
Now is the time to confront and fix what has been metastasizing in higher education since the advent of speech codes in the late 1980s. Teaching the ethics and consequences of civil discourse is ...