Screen-Free Coding

There’s a particular kind of Saturday morning magic that happens when a five-year-old sits on the living room floor — no iPad, no telly, no parental cajoling — and figures out, entirely by themselves, how to make a small blue robot navigate around a pile of building blocks. It clicks. Not just the robot, but … Read more

There’s a moment every Reception or Year 1 teacher knows well. You set a little yellow robot down on the carpet mat, a wide-eyed five-year-old presses “go,” and the thing trundles off in precisely the wrong direction. Cue five seconds of stunned silence, followed by an eruption of laughter, frantic debugging, and — if you’re … Read more