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It’s now easier than ever to teach programming with our new Tutorial Designer that allows anyone (even students)  to design a lesson for others to follow.  Just start with a project you’ve already created, and you can easily add step-by-step instructions to show someone how to build your project. Review these sample tutorials Sign in to Tynker, and you can take […]

  If your students are among the 4 million who receive Time for Kids in their classroom each month, you’ll notice that this month’s cover story discusses why coding is important for kids……featuring Tynker!   In the article, Tynker’s Co-Founder, Srinivas Mandyam, is quoted on the importance of coding, and the ability of coding to support many academic areas.     […]

Note: This post is archived. We have moved onto using Jupyter notebooks on Counter Hack and Sky Pirates to help kids learn JavaScript. We are excited to announce a wonderful feature that will enable kids to learn coding with blocks and then move on to real text based code when they are ready. Using the new Code View in Tynker workshop, […]

By Tomas Durkin, Exhibits Coordinator, Children’s Creativity Museum, San Francisco At the Children’s Creativity Museum, we strive to inspire our visitors to transition from being everyday consumers of media to producers of media.  With our Creative Coding Field Trips, we use Tynker to help students realize that they can actually make the games that they love playing so much! One of […]

Coding with Tynker Produces Confident, Creative Kids What is the benefit of creating with code? Do we want all of our kids to become programmers? Not necessarily. As parents, we want our kids to learn skills important to their future success. We want our children to be confident, independent, and resourceful problem-solvers. Coding with Tynker teaches kids all of these things. […]

If you’ve tried an Hour of Code with Tynker, you’ve seen how much fun students can have as they learn valuable programming basics. But the fun doesn’t have to stop! With lesson plans and robust creativity tools, Tynker takes students the next step, so they can apply what they’ve learned as they create their own projects to enjoy with friends, […]

With energy and drive, teacher David Villafana paved the way for the Miller Middle School’s first computer science class, based on the success of an after school club he initiated. We talked with him about the school’s decision process and reasons for their enthusiasm about programming. What were some of the reasons Miller decided to include coding in the school […]

Schools use Tynker not only to teach programming, but also to support cross-curricular instruction. The open-ended creativity and endless project possibilities that Tynker unlocks make it the perfect medium to support project-based learning in all subject areas in a fun and hands-on way. As more schools across the country adopt Tynker for technology learning district-wide, teachers are finding creative ways […]

Many kids tell us that building customizable characters is one of their favorite features of Tynker. So we decided to take our Character Animation Studio to the next level to inspire kids to create games and stories featuring beautifully rendered, fluidly animated characters, and new programming commands to make it easy to add realistic characters to their games. Kids can easily create customized, […]