pi-top, Ekobits, and Digital Citizens Fund: Running the Gamut in Coding & ICT Education

Reposting this here from Panoply Digital. Picking up where I left off in a previous blog post on learn to code initiatives, today we have a few more entries into the rather large field. Yet these aren’t initiatives focusing on learning to code as an end in itself, but rather as building capacity for actually […]

Teaching Coding to Kids: Caveats and Initiatives from Africa and Asia

Reposting here from Panoply Digital. Teaching coding to children is, if press reports are to be believed, an educational imperative, some sort of literacy that children can’t live without in the 21st century. We see initiatives throughout the world in the UK (with the express goal of creating a ‘code-literate’ society), the EU, and elsewhere, […]