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 ...

While major players like Disney and Activision, to some extent, are abandoning the "toys-to-life" ship that they helped establish, their departure leaves room for more takers and innovators to take ...

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 ...

We’ve all seen that inspirational Facebook meme: “At 23, JK Rowling was broke. Tina Fey was working at the YMCA. Oprah had just gotten fired from her first job as a TV reporter and Walt Disney had ...

It’s no longer tough to find coding toys for young kids. Here’s a look at your current options. All of the toys are either sold through major retailers or online. DASH AND DOT ($150 for Dash, $50 for ...

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Coding is notoriously abstract, yet consensus increasingly says we need to be teaching it to our kids as early as possible. So how do you teach abstract logic to kids who haven’t even necessarily ...

Integrating real-world objects into a fun iPad game is Osmo’s brand; we reviewed the company’s drawing game, Osmo Monster, last year. Today, Osmo has announced the latest addition to its collection, ...

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 ...

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 ...