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ReadWrite 10/18/13 Learning to code is all the rage these days, but not in one place that matters a lot: U.S. schools. U.S. students already significantly lag their global counterparts where math and science skills are concerned. But computer science is in even worse shape: Of 12 technical subjects examined in a recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics, computer science […]

Babble 10/16/13 She asked for more ukeleles. At our Parent Council Meeting last week, the principal brought a funding request to the Council from the music teacher. She wanted money to buy more ukeleles. I get that music is important. I get that sharing ukeleles in a crowded class of 9 yr olds is not conducive to a positive teaching […]

Tynker is very excited to participate in Hour of Code, the CSEdWeek and code.org initiative to build computer science education in K-12. What is the Hour of Code? The Hour of Code is an ambitious nationwide initiative to demystify computer science for 10 million students across the world, and encourage and help them to learn to code. Anybody can participate and […]

Five reasons to teach kids to code 10/15/13 The ability to communicate with machines is probably the closest thing to superpowers that can be taught. Teaching kids computer programming from a young age can help learning development and better prepare them for a world that is becoming increasingly connected. Over the next ten years, programming will be one of the […]

GigaOm 10/15/13 Silicon Valley’s biggest companies may fight tooth and nail to recruit programmers already groomed for the industry’s most technical jobs. But they’re taking a much more collaborative path when it comes to courting the country’s youngest hackers-to-be. On Monday, the ten-month-old non-profit Code.org launched a nationwide campaign to get 10 million students to join an “Hour of Code” during Computer […]

Edutopia 10/10/13 Editor’s Note: Helen Mowers, co-creator of the Tech Chicks podcast, contributed to this post. It’s hard to imagine a single career that doesn’t have a need for someone who can code. Everything that “just works” has some type of code that makes it run. Coding (a.k.a. programming) is all around us. That’s why all the cool kids are coding […]

That was the big question KQED’s Katrina Schwartz explored on NPR Morning Edition yesterday – how entrepreneurs and startups are revolutionizing schools with technological innovations. Katrina interviewed Krishna Vedati, CEO of Tynker, as part of her research for this feature. She also visited a Tynker summer camp, met with the students, and saw first hand how kids use Tynker to […]

“Braden’s favorite thing to do this summer was ‘being on the computer and programming’. He would wake up early in the morning to log in to Tynker on our home computer then he would attend camp for a full day and as soon as he got home he would get back online to see his work. You could say he […]

KQED  10/08/13 Every year, schools spend billions of dollars on supplies and instructional materials and staff. A lot of that money flows to a few textbook publishers that create content, test-prep, even the tests themselves. Now, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley are looking for ways to disrupt this market, revolutionize schools with technological innovation and make some money. […]