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 ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Coding is the ultimate "easy to learn, hard to master" discipline. Even a simple ...

If you've ever wished your childhood Lego creations could come to life, your dreams are now closer to reality. Lego has just unveiled a subbrand called Boost that promises to do just that. The base ...

Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in “Hour of code” activities, helping them become active, rather than passive users of technology and starting learning that ...

These 15 free coding classes for kids are available now to help your kids learn skills that are becoming more and more essential in our current times. Knowing even just basic computer programming is ...

With the ever-increasing importance of computers in our daily lives, it's no wonder that we're trying to get our kids into computing early. With the right gadgets and games, children as young as three ...

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When Bitsbox co-founder Scott Lininger learned to code, it was on a TRS-80 color computer his mom and dad bought him when he was a kid. He says he taught himself coding by copying from the book that ...

There is no shortage of fun programs designed to teach kids the basics of programming, from Microsoft’s Minecraft coding game to MIT’s Scratch project, and now Google has launched its own program ...

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 ...

Let’s teach as many kids as possible to code. Our future depends on it. That’s a statement that not too long ago we took for granted as unambiguously correct and non-controversial. Now, there are some ...