Nearly two years ago, I wrote about Google’s App Inventor. Unfortunately, Google discontinued it in December of last year (though, happily, MIT now maintains it). Recently, Google released Blockly, ...

Teaching kids to code at an early age might be a hot and sometimes hotly debated topic these days, but as early as the 60s, there were already some computer scientists and educators blazing that trail ...

Curious about programming and want to build your own app, but feel a bit intimidated? Google Blockly is a visual programming language that can help you get started quickly.The webapp lets you drag ...

Blockly is a jigsaw-like tool made by Google to teach beginning programming skills. Blockly is a jigsaw-like tool made by Google to teach beginning programming skills. Adi Robertson is a senior tech ...

Ozobot, a tiny augmented reality robot that introduces kids to simple programming, is receiving an upgrade with Ozobot Bit. The new Ozobots use a customized block-based programming editor called ...

CommunityRule is a Web app we've been building at MEDLab to help communities design, edit, and share their own governance systems. You can think about it as an effort to re-think the idea of bylaws in ...

Last year we reviewed the Ozobot, a small robot that helps kids learn about simple code language and deductive reasoning through colored code pieces and paths, as well as a few fun “learning while ...