"Learning how to use a computer has become as important as writing and reading in the classroom," says Alison Lane, an assistant professor of occupational therapy at Ohio State University.

The hands-on approach to teaching computational thinking is a good way to “check off” the competencies that students should learn as part of the Computer Science Teachers Association K-12 ...

Beyond their extraordinary usefulness in industry, medicine and communications, these “learning” programs can lay bare the mental shortcuts we humans use to make sense of our world.

"Students who use computers very frequently at school do a lot worse in most learning outcomes, even after controlling for social background and student demographics." That's right. Lots of computer ...

Computer games play a major role in the lives and media use of children and adolescents people. However, current school teaching rarely takes this medium into account.

News Feature Published: 08 January 2014 Computer science: The learning machines Nicola Jones Nature 505, 146–148 (2014) Cite this article ...