Who wouldn’t want to have an awesome super power? But sadly—or maybe fortunately, depending on how you look at things—being able to fly faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall buildings in a single bound isn’t possible in our currently reality.
Technology is changing at such a rapid pace that it’s almost impossible to predict what jobs will be available in the next generation. With this exponential rate of growth and change, many careers that exist today won’t be around in 15 years.
Children today have access to more information and have more to learn and process than ever before. Unless they develop skills that help them stay organized, solve problems, and make decisions efficiently, they’ll be frustrated by information overload instead of gaining the knowledge they need to be successful.
Graphic design is one of those rare careers where you are likely to know from an early age that its what you want to do. You’ll already be really good at drawing and designing things, and it’s probably one of your favorite things to do.
In some families, summer camp has become a tradition, and there are some fairly good reasons for this. But there are only so many times you can make the journey out to Lake Unpronounceable before it starts to feel like you’re doing the same old thing, with the same people, year after year.
If you have your heart set on a career in the movie industry, getting an early start is going to be profoundly helpful in achieving your goals.
This summer, Junior Coders has launched an innovative new summer camp program where kids can learn the secrets behind digital video editing, and how to make better movies. READ MORE
When you think of summer camp, what probably comes to mind is paddling canoes around a lake or singing songs around the camp fire. There’s nothing actually wrong with these traditional summer camp activities, but this is a new millennium, and it’s time to upgrade your expectations.
Digital literacy is sometimes confused with computer programming when we talk about technology education, but the two skills are distinct. Today’s school-aged children have never lived in a non-digital world and have grown up with technology as part of everyday life. READ MORE
As a parent, you may wonder how to turn your child’s interest in computers and electronic devices into something productive that benefits them. Most of what the majority of kids do with computers and phones these days can seem quite unproductive.
Computers can do so much these days. They’re practically an indispensable part of life for many people, and they help make it possible to provide public services to us like electricity, running water, and public transport. Plus of course all the applications in business and industry.
Without computer programs, many things in our modern way of life simply wouldn’t work. Trains would come to a standstill, hospitals would no longer be able to function in a systematic way, kids wouldn’t be able to watch cartoons on YouTube, and yeah… the world would just be a darker, less efficient, and less fun place to live.
What most kids love about computers is that you can play all kinds of games on them. Seriously, that’s a lot of fun. But what you may not already know is that many games allow you to make changes to them so you can make them even more fun, or you can experiment with all kinds of crazy things.