Kids thrill to the power of making their toys do their bidding, yet they also delight in toys that surprise them with new responses. These toys for the very youngest technoheads-to-be tempt kids into ...

DIY robots are becoming the gateway to coding. Over the last couple of years, a new wave of cute-faced bots has taken shape to make programming languages fun for kids. Instead of dense textbooks and ...

One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

Say hello to yet another cute toy with a mission to lift dollars out of parents’ wallets get kids coding and grasping the basics of logical thinking. Codie is a programmable robot that’s controlled ...

Microsoft wants your kids to learn to code, and they have tons of free programs to get them excited. The tech giant offers free classes, camps, and an Hour of Code in their stores to introduce kids to ...

Fifteen years ago, I started this column with the advice that "computers are not a passing fad -- they are here to stay." In this, my last column as USA Today's Kid-Tech Columnist, my advice is: teach ...

All aboard the learn-to-code train! As another holiday season looms and kids everywhere start clamouring for shiny stuff, we’ve got you covered with a bumper edition of our annual STEM gift guide.

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 ...

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Unlike our youths spent laboriously learning to pluck letters on a desktop keyboard and having very little technological knowledge outside of changing our AIM away message, the children of today are ...

If you’ve ever considered trying to make your own version of Ice King’s crown with a digital flair, you’re in luck. Cartoon Network, Microsoft MakeCode and Adafruit announced Monday that they are ...