The Guardian

MIT's ScratchJr iPad app encourages children to 'code to learn'

Kickstarter-funded educational programming app is inspired by the Scratch language used in schools around the world The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has released a new iPad app that ...
Mashable

Google teams up with MIT to make programming easier for kids

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google's annual developer conference doesn't officially kick off until Wednesday but about 120 of the company's youngest developers are already getting to preview one of its ...
The Guardian

ScratchJr coding-for-kids project hits $25k Kickstarter goal in two days

Developers will release iPad app this summer, but hoping remaining 37 days of campaign will fund Android version The latest crowdfunding project hoping to get children interested in computer ...
Forbes

Your Five Year Old Can Learn To Code With An IPad App

The MIT Media Lab recently released ScratchJr, a free iPad app that helps children 5-8 learn how to code. The app is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab, Tufts University, and Playful Invention ...
TechCrunch

The Creator Of Scratch Talks About Technical Literacy, Coding, And Smarter Kids

Mitch Resnik, the creator of the super-simple Scratch programming language and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, gave a TEDx talk about the value of coding and computer ...