The free app is already being used in kindergarten classrooms at the Eliot-Pearson Children's School in Medford. "I learned to concentrate and use the imagination a lot," 7-year-old Talia Levitt says.

Developed in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and Tufts University’s DevTech Research Group, the new free PBS KIDS ScratchJr App helps kids learn coding concepts as they create their own ...

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The app is inspired by the Scratch visual programing language, which is aimed primarily at youth ages 8-16 as an educational tool that requires reading skills. The ScratchJr creators saw a need for a ...

Mitchel Resnick and team have developed a new tablet application called ScratchJr which has been specifically developed to help young children between the ages of 5 and 7 learn basic programming ...