Osmo, the company that creates cool iPad apps that interact with physical objects, is now tackling one of the toughest tasks in modern education: teaching kids to program. For that purpose, it has created Osmo Coding.
Ariel Zekelman is a co-creator of Osmo Coding.
The title is the latest in a serious of iPad educational games that the Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup has created in an effort to reinvent how children learn. Osmo’s past titles — which teach kids how to read, draw, manipulate shapes, or solve math problems — are being used in thousands of schools around the country. Using nothing more than an iPad and some blocks, Osmo Coding can teach computational thinking. Its simplicity makes it appropriate for kids ages five to 12 to learn coding.
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