![]() Hardware: board included, connected via Bluetooth Younger children will look forward to exploring new lands and coding concepts with Mochi. (For additional resources on coding for kids, check this site out.) To check out our experiences with a wide variety of robots and board games (arranged in increasing age appropriateness), keep scrolling. I (with the help of some curious kids and parents) investigated a bunch of toys and games (covering an age range from 3 years old to adulthood) that claim to teach coding skills in fun and novel ways. So, naturally, these coding toys aimed at kids piqued my interest. As a person with a degree in a STEM field, I had to learn how to code later in life, and it was a miserably long learning curve (even if it’s one of my favorite things to do now). Coding is becoming essential knowledge because the world runs on computers, and computers themselves run on code. One emerging trend is toys that teach kids how to write computer programming code. As the world becomes more and more digitally inclined, parents and teachers alike want toys that teach kids computer-and technology-related skills, both for their future employability and for being a citizen in a society built on 1’s and 0’s. I learned very quickly that “Dog” was not a day of the week, and that it was very easy to die of wasting diseases in the western US in the 19th century.įlash forward to today, where the “Internet of Things” and the next tech gadget rule the day. I remember inserting floppy disks (!) into a computer in order to play classic games like “Number Munchers” and “The Oregon Trail”. Wow, educational toys have changed a lot since I was a kid. I'm always trying out coding toys for kids, so stay tuned for further updates! I've just updated this article to include Disney Codeillusion.
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