You... Will... Learn... Coding! You... Will...

This is brilliant!





I've been wondering for a while what to do about a six-year-old who already seems dangerously close to computer-game addiction (currently in cold turkey thanks to the Wii-U not yet having been unpacked) and who has recently expressed an urgent need to watch Dr Who (way past his bedtime!). 




I'd vaguely thought of trying to get him coding - he's immensely creative (aren't all six-year-olds?) and often invents games and draws the characters and writes the story-lines. It seemed but a short step from there to start him off writing his own code. But an admittedly less-than-exhaustive search had found nothing remotely suitable. Until now.




This online browser game from the BBC introduces a friendly Dalek and takes kids from age six upwards through a series of steps to get them coding. The various levels are also linked to different curriculum outcomes too so it's s triple whammy - he gets to play, learns to code and gets help with schoolwork. 




This might literally have made our half-term. (It launches, via the CBBC website, this coming Wednesday.)




And they say the licence fee ain't worth the money...




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29645991?ocid=socialflow_twitter