Computers play a huge role in our everyday lives, and now more than ever, it's important that educators provide computer basics for kids, what computers can do and how technology can be helpful. From ...

Learning to type has come a long way from banging out rows of f-f-f and j-j-j. So has the intended audience, which has moved from middle schoolers to include children as young as kindergarten ...

At a time when parents are eager to give their kids an edge in math and science, several computer programming languages have been developed specifically for children.

The older kids, however, wanted to stretch the computer to do things outside of the ball itself, which they can do by taking apart the two halves and attaching the computer to a toy car, a Lego ...

Drawbacks: The games are Flash-based, a bummer for those on newer devices (though perhaps it’s simply a note of dry British irony). Not having a social function built-in to software designed for ...

Instead of repurposing an older computer, help your kids build one of their own without spending too much.

“The kids already know how to type,” the staff at my son’s school told us at curriculum night, “so we have decided to use computer time on something else.” But how are kids typing?

Scientists have found that youth influence their parents in all technologies studied (computer, mobile Internet, social networking) up to 40 percent of the time. The children's scores were ...