Do you want to make your own story using Scratch Jr.? Come along and watch this video series to learn how with Sammy the Robot! 🤖 Curriculum for This Week:… Read More
Category: Coding & STEAM
Coding & STEAM projects for kids ages 6-12.
How to Make a Short Story in Scratch Jr. Introduction!
Do you want to make your own story using Scratch Jr.? Come along and watch this video series to learn how with Sammy the Robot! 🤖 This Week’s Homework: Download… Read More
Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Activities for Kids
AutoDraw (Kindergarten & Older) AutoDraw is a web-based drawing tool made by Google Creative Lab that uses machine learning and drawings by artists to help people to draw anything. AutoDraw’s… Read More
Algorithm Challenge: Bus Tickets
Create an algorithm for the computer, which asks the user for age and returns the price that the user needs to pay for the bus ticket. – The children under……...
Running Algorithms in Python
People speak natural languages such as English, Korean Spanish, etc., so we can give them instructions (algorithms) in one of these languages and they will understand. However, in order to… Read More
Effective And Ineffective Algorithms
In the last post, we introduced algorithms as a set of instructions given to a computer in order to complete a given task. This post focuses on explaining the difference… Read More
Making Computers Understand You
Asking a friend to grab you a glass of water seems like a simple ask. However, computers are not as smart as humans. Although computers can quickly complete complicated tasks,… Read More
Empathy – Our Tool to Make Technology humane
In 2014, programming had just become part of the national curriculum of elementary schools in Finland. There was a big discussion about the aims and implications of programming education: is… Read More
Play for Creative Learning: Interview with Mitch Resnick
Mitch Resnick is the Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab and the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research. His research group created Scratch, a visual… Read More
Crayons, Cardboard, and Virtual Reality
Teaching children to be creative is easily done through play. In fact, it is impossible not to be creative once you enter a state of play [1]. Children play intuitively… Read More