This is an introduction and a flashback to the history of Visual Programming Languages. The infograph is further down the page. Visual Programming Languages (VPL): When coding becomes a matter of manipulating graphic… Read More
My name is Sylvia, and I’m 9 years old. My dad made this crazy website and wanted me to do some stuff on it, so here I am! I like to draw, go… Read More
Once a week, subscribers of the japanese robot magazine “Robi” receives about five mechanical parts with the magazine. After 70 weeks they will have all they need to assemble an entire robot! Robi is… Read More
My son has talked about getting an aquarium with fish for some time now. But still I was surprised when my wife came home with a 100 liter fish tank! OK, no way… Read More
Since the release of the Google Earth plug-in in 2008, developers have created lots of games and mods based on the map service. Many of those are really funny, mainly because you can… Read More
LEGO is 55 years old! January 28.th. 1958, the plastic brick was patented. Now the brick sells 19 billion elements in a year. It continues to be my favorite construction toy, no wonder… Read More
MIT Media Lab and P2PU is hostsing a free MOOC called Learning Creative Learning. P2PU is short for Peer to Peer University. It’s an… …open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls… Read More
The Scratch 2.0 BETA is out now! I’ve been waiting long for this update on my favorite visual programming language, I’m very exited so I feel like sharing my first impressions with you.… Read More
Almost 14 years after the release of the first generation of LEGO Mindstorms, third generation of LEGO Mindstorms named EV3 was announced this year at CES, Las Vegas. The biggest change: Implementing the best from… Read More
In case you haven’t bought them yet (!), here are some innovative and creative ideas for your kids: C-JUMP, THE BOARD GAME If you want your kid to learn to code, but you… Read More
Do you know any female engineers or coders? I only know a handful. Only 11% of engineers are women! Maybe that’s because the profession doesn’t appeal to the female stereotype? For some reason,… Read More
New learning theories make their way into designing school interior and architecture. Howard Gardner and Rita Dunn has already changed the school of tomorrow, today. Malou Juelskjaer, phd. at Aarhus University, Denmark, believes… Read More
I’ve now learned, that Estonia is launching the education program ProgeTiiger (english: programming tiger), with the goal to turn teach 100% of all students at public schools to code. This starts in first… Read More
When I was a kid, I used to read the comics by the Danish political artist Storm P. Especially his crazy inventions inspired me, and I made drawings similar to his, but with… Read More
When Thomas Suarez was 10 years old, he fell for the iPhone. He already had programming experience from Python, C and Java, and now he wanted to give the apple app development kit… Read More
I’ve written about kids with extraordinary sense of creativity and innovative minds. Especially Caine Monroy, the nine year old boy behind “Caine’s Arcade” here. Now, this other kid, 15-year-old Kelvin Doe from Sierra… Read More
At an ordinary day at the mall, I saw this at the bookstore. “How Machines Work” by Nick Arnold and Allan Sanders. This would be a perfect christmas present for my four-year-old son.… Read More
It’s been a year, since we first heard about Caine Monroy and his Arcade. Back then, a guy named Nirvan Mullick bought a fun-pass, and got so amazed by Caine’s skills and imagination,… Read More
Is it possible to learn physics from a gravity-based game? I don’t know. But you can learn to solve problems with “Where’s My Water”. The game is about an alligator who lives in the… Read More
I just rediscovered my old teenage hobby stored in my garage: My Warhammer figures! High Elves, Orcs, Skeletons, Dwarves and Lizardmen. When I was a teenager, I collected, painted and played with these figures… Read More
My son begged and begged me to buy a habitat starter set for his four hexbugs. Its one of those containing hexagonal piece and two curved pieces. Price: 13 £ !! I was… Read More
In Helsingor, north of Copenhagen Denmark, lies two huge former industrial hangars. Inside is the National Museum of Science and Technology. The hangars are filled with historical airplanes, motorcycles, cars and other vehicles and… Read More
Jump to the Telenoid section Jump to the Kinect as an Innovation Tool section Abstract: In this post, I will introduce some of the apps that have been developed for the Kinect to… Read More
I have always been a huge LEGO fan! In my childhood ive spend days on the floor building and building! Mostly spaceships and battle tanks with huge cannons. But my oldest kid has now… Read More
This 9-year-old boy Caine created his own arcade only using cardboard and whatever he had in his possession. He took the “playing shop with your toys” a step further! His dad, an auto mechanic,… Read More
A few weeks ago, I was on a short trip in Oslo with my wife and kids. I was determined to visit a child-friendly museum of some sort. I surfed the net and… Read More
Who said that computer programming should be reserved for a tiny group of nerds? Is it because they are the only ones with the ideas? Or because it’s simply too complex for ordinary… Read More
The app Scribblenauts Remix for iPhone/iPad/iPod is an action puzzle problem-based game, originally for the Nintendo DS. It is published by Warner Bros. Interactive. The objective is to solve a puzzle by conjuring… Read More
Last year I took pictures of all my sons Schleich plastic animals, printed and laminated them, my son gave them an individual price and we turned them into a “product directory”. This became… Read More
Jump to Gears Of My Childhood Click here I watch how many parents and teachers buys smartphones, tablets and lots of app’s and then they think the child will learn, just like that!… Read More
