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Overview and First Impressions from My Students

Richard Byrne wrote a follow-up piece about Blackbird on Free Technology for Teachers. In short, Blackbird is a platform that is trying...

Development Update

We'll be releasing updates on 4/25/2021 from 9PM to 11PM PST. 1. New lesson type: Puzzle In addition to creating their own programs,...

Blackbird Fills a Gap in Programming Instruction

Richard Byrne wrote a piece about Blackbird on Free Technology for Teachers. Blackbird can be used by teachers who don't have any prior...

Blackbird Announces First-ever Purpose-built Middle School Coding Education Platform

Blackbird, creators of the world's first educational version of JavaScript, today announced the official launch of the Blackbird...

The Coming Coding Revolution

Our cofounder Ness had a piece published on eSchool News. English language literacy and coding literacy share some overlap—and the...

Development Update

We'll be releasing updates on 4/2/2021 from 9PM to 11PM PST. 1. New grading report In response to teacher requests, we've added a new...

Development Update

We'll be releasing updates on 3/26/2021 from 9PM to 11PM PST. 1. User interface We've been improving the look and feel of the app. The...

How Coding Goes Wrong

Learning to program is a comedy of errors.

All About Show Me

There’s a fundamental problem with writing a system for teaching coding...

A programming class without a classroom

What does class look like without a classroom?