There’s a greater push to teach kids computer coding at school. But you don’t need to be a technology whiz to introduce it to your students.

I wanted to design a new project that could be about classes working together, communicating, and listening to each other.

My journey began in Vancouver 30 years ago, as an aid with Trainable Mentally Handicapped students. Designated as ‘uneducable,’ these students were relegated to gaining work experience. Noticing they easily recounted movie plots and the artists and lyrics Top 40 songs, it occurred to me that the real handicap might be a teaching methodology that was incompatible with their learning styles.

Here are some apps that can get kids excited about coding from a young age.

In a world that is striving to create universal accessibility, it’s important that students be exposed to the idea of programming with multiple languages in mind.

Grammatically, it’s an awful-sounding word: gamification, or as a verb, to “gamify” the classroom. Teachers, however, have found a powerful tool here.