Currently, and increasingly, we live in a world where information is on the Internet (virtual classrooms for schools, travel agencies, e-banking, etc.). Programming and the use of ITC are becoming the new literacy system. Many organizations promote teaching...
What is the binary system? The binary system is a numbering system in which numbers are represented using only two digits: zero (0) and one (1). It is the natural counting system used by computers, since internally they work with two levels of voltage: on (or...
In recent years several tools have emerged to help introducing programming to children and young people. These tools aim to provide an introduction to programming using a friendly environment but, at the same time, it offers several alternatives for learning the...
Most children know Scratch today, an educational tool created by the MIT Media Lab to teach coding to kids. Codelearn’s team has visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has had the opportunity to interview Mitchel Resnick (Scratch’s creator) and...
In our country, it’s strange to relate programming as a skill focused on children. However, there are increasingly more initiatives (mostly on Anglo-Saxon world) to teach computational thinking to children from an early age. Note that computational thinking is...
