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 ...

My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. Their favorite app? ScratchJr, MIT's ...

You don’t have to be a kid to get excited about a “robot garden” with tons of fast-changing LED lights and over 100 origami roots that crawl, swim and blossom like flowers, but MIT has created such a ...

Ana Carolina, 10 years old, lives with her mother and younger sister in one of 900 apartments in a low-cost housing complex in Brazil. When she wakes up in the morning, she likes watching parrots fly ...

In an effort to make school-based ICT more than a matter of "MS Word, clip art and web research" a central London primary school held a creative activity day at which 240 children aged five to 11 ...

Marina Umaschi Bers, SM ’97, PhD ’01, was working as a journalist in her native Argentina in 1992 when an assignment put her in touch with MIT mathematician and computer scientist Seymour Papert—the ...

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