In 1964 30 sixth grade students from Westchester County did something nobody else had ever done before: they learned from a computer game. Today the computer’s usefulness as an educational tool has ...

A new educational foundation hopes to introduce children worldwide to coding, using a tiny single-board computer that has changed the way coding is taught in schools across the U.K. You may have ...

Today we’re going to talk about how computer science can support learning. Today we’re going to go a little meta and talk about how computer science can support learning with educational technology.

IBM got their PCs and PS/2 computers into schools in the 1980s and 1990s. We fondly remember educational games like Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain. However, IBM had been trying to get into the ...

Computer-assisted learning (CAL) has increasingly become a focal point in education research, offering a promising alternative and supplement to traditional classroom instruction. Empirical studies ...

Way back before the days of microcomputers, a few very lucky students first got their hands wet with microcomputer trainers. These simple devices used common logic chips, lights, and switches to ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, PLATO was used as a groundbreaking computer-aided instruction (CAI) system, equipped with modern features such as beautiful graphics and touch screens for the time. Summarized ...

As we all struggle down the path toward true educational inclusion, we are confronted with four pillars of equity as described by Rochelle Guiterize: Access, Success, Power and Identity. Educators ...

Computer science professor Gloria Childress Townsend has been named a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest scientific and educational computing society.

The dawn of the personal computer in the 1970s promised the greatest change in American instructional methods since the 19th century—which is when schools began to use standardized textbooks. While ...

With a variety of options to choose from, there is a computer toy on this list to suit every child's interests and learning style. Technology has permeated every aspect of our lives in the digital age ...