Hour of Code 2014

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  Teach your kids to code with this neat Minecraft lesson

  TNW - Lauren Hockenson

  Minecraft, which innocently started out as a vast open-world block-based game, is probably the closest thing to crack cocaine for kids. Its popularity with the grade school set is likely what helped it become one of the best-selling games of all time, turned the game’s developers, Mojang, into a …

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  Keith Dacey

  Nov 18, 2015

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  Nov 11, 2015
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  3 Reasons Coding Should Be a Core Subject

  gettingsmart.com - Guest Author

  The push to make computer science a core subject in K-12 schools is on of the hottest, most popular educational reform issues of our time. England …

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  Coding Class, Then Naptime: Computer Science For The Kindergarten Set

  NPR - Anya Kamenetz

  Back when Grant Hosford's older daughter was in first grade, she signed up for an extracurricular class, building robots with a programmable Lego toy called Mindstorms. Hosford, a dot-com entrepreneur, came to visit the class and was startled to see that Naomi, who loves science and math, was both …

• “A Thimble Full of Fun”

  

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  A Thimble Full of Fun

  wordpress.com - by dougpete

  You know those popular graphics about keeping calm? They started as kind of cool and interesting. Then, the questions become – how do I create my own? A …