With the development of the Internet and IT technology, computers such as PCs and smart phones are blending into a part of daily life. There are also many schools that incorporate programming classes ...

Coding is becoming an increasingly desirable skill in the modern world. There’s a growing consensus that children should be exposed to programming earlier and more often. “We’ve got to have our kids ...

The best programmers turn complex code into intuitive tools that anyone can use. And those tools are easier than ever to master, requiring little more than a swipe or a tap. Interacting with code is ...

Music is a strong motivator — and a powerful learning tool. One study found that students who listened to their favorite songs wrote twice as much while doing so as those who didn’t. But budgetary ...

When parents these days hear the old saying “The jobs of tomorrow haven’t been invented yet,” they tend to add, “so my child had better learn to code.” As software has redefined a range of industries ...

Toy and game developers have responded. One recent entry — and, for young children, one of the best — is the iPad-exclusive Osmo Coding by Tangible Play. Using plastic bricks that represent computer ...

I’ve been a big fan of Osmo products for years, and we have dozens of their kits at my school that we use on an almost daily basis. Osmo isn’t just for the classroom, though. They’ve recently branched ...

Osmo Coding Jam uses characters and physical blocks to help children learn block-based coding through music. and play. What started as a clutch of novel ways to learn spelling, shapes and numbers on ...

It's simply called Osmo Coding, and it builds on top of the Reflective AI platform the company launched a couple years ago. You essentially fit a mirror over the front-facing camera of an iPad, and ...

Rik is Pocket-lint's senior news editor and has been a tech and games journalist since the 80s. He has seen and covered just about every console, mobile phone, gadget and home cinema device launched ...

Osmo Coding elegantly combines Lego, coding and video-games. It enables children to learn computational thinking with tactile, magnetic blocks of code. Today Osmo has another trick up its sleeve with ...