Now kids can easily program a complex robot to recognize a smileThis sounds like a fun way to teach coding skills to kids. It's very difficult to explain the importance of knowing how to code to someone who doesn't know how to code, but coding is behind almost everything we do in the modern world, one way or the other, like it or not. To fail to provide kids with opportunities to learn how to code beginning at a very young age is no longer acceptable.
MIT Media Lab created Scratch in 2007, and Anki is utilizing an open-source version called Scratch Blocks that was developed as a collaboration between Google and MIT. Kids who use Scratch are “learning the core computational concepts that are important for any other type of programming language,” says Mitchel Resnick, a professor of learning research at the MIT Media Lab and one of Scratch’s creators.
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