Students in Finland play chess to learn coding skills. Coding, the ability to read and write the language of computer software, is considered an important future skill, a fluency in the common langue ...

A teacher in Virginia uses a micro-controller to connect a computer to a keyboard, allowing kindergarten students to play musical notes that are triggered when they high-five their classmates. In ...

Randy Pausch loved creating virtual worlds on computers. And Mr. Pausch, the late computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, wanted all of his students to learn how they could share in ...

Ubiquitous computing has delivered a world in which there seem to be few devices left that no longer contain a microprocessor of some sort. Thus should a student wish to learn about the inner workings ...

In 2023, the LeNoir Foundation, a UK-based 'for impact' organization, concluded the construction of a library at Saving Arms Primary School in Kampala, Uganda. While outfitting the facility with ...

Today’s desktop computers are as powerful as supercomputers were 20 years ago, said computer science professor Joel Adams. And 20 years from now, the average desktop may be as powerful as the ...

Could tutoring a computer be the way to develop machines that talk back? Scientists in Israel are treating their computer like an unruly child, correcting its mistakes and punishing it for errors. If ...

As California pushes to increase access to computer science education for K-12 students, schools across the state this summer are preparing to ramp up course offerings and equip teachers to lead ...

Alante Klyce wants to be a dancer. Yet here she is, inside a sun-filled classroom at Lindblom Math & Science Academy on the city’s South Side, throwing around tech-industry terms like “ideation” and ...

The number of hours spent teaching computing and ICT in secondary schools in England has been falling over the past six years, according to research. A study by the University of Roehampton found the ...