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.
There are many different teaching methods and learning styles, but for somewhat obvious reasons, project-based learning tends to be the most successful.
What kid doesn’t dream of having their own personal robot? I’m not talking about some little plastic toy robot that blinks and buzzes (those can be fun too), but a real robot that can make decisions, help you do things, and even just hang out with you. Robots aren’t always the best of company, but they’re cool enough that you won’t mind.
Computer games are a lot of fun and can even be a little bit addictive, which is why sometimes grown-ups think we play them too much and suggest we should try doing other things. But you know what’s even more fun than playing games? Making games!
In a world where human jobs are frequently being taken over by machines, the one place where job security is assured is for the people who make, control, and improve the machines. Whether we like it or not, the future is already being mapped out, and it’s grim news for the unskilled labor sector.