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Generation Z – Five Blogs We Follow (0)

Joel Drapper – Joel is a 15 year old blogger, and web design and developer.

Melikbilge – Melik Yuksel is a 14-year old web and graphic designer and emerging entrepreneur. Melik is a senior member of 9miles Media, a design company.

Techxav.com - Xavier Lur – is a 15-Year-Old Blogger of TechXav.com & A Social Media Expert

Stanley Tang – [...]

Children As Consumers (0)

Read Consumer Kids by Ed Mayo & Agnes Nairn. The book is intended to shock.It shows how children are targeted by big business and gives advice on how to deal with the ever growing commercial and marketing pressures.

Virtual Parents – Maybe Not…but Something is Needed (0)

More than 2.5 million children have at least one parent serving on active duty or in the National Guard or Reserve. So what are they doing to help these kids cope? According to The New Scientist Magazine, the Department of Defense is soliciting proposals for a computer program that would enable young children to [...]

Kudos to the Real Jessica Simpson! (0)

Jessica could be a role model for young girls showing them that one can be beautiful without makeup or Photoshop retouching. Jessica Simpson goes back to basics for Marie Claire’s May issue, all in the name of real beauty.

TeacherMate Changes Teacher-Child Experience! (1)

TeacherMate is the brainchild of Seth Weinberger, a technology lawyer. It is a handheld computer designed for use in schools and focuses on helping children in kindergarten through 2nd Grade learn through reading, writing and math lessons. The device costs $100 and is much smaller than Nintendo DS.
 
Weinberger’s mission is to improve the teaching [...]

Kids MMOs – What are Your Kids Playing? (0)

 
Thank you to Boing Boing for the image of the most popular kids MMOs. What are your kids playing?
 
Check out Poptropica…
 
 

Alice – A New Way to Teach GenZ (0)

 
If your child is interested in learning to program – there is a site that will help them create an experience that will engage their minds.
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on [...]

Social Media as a Platform to Mobilize Efforts (0)

Social media has created a new trend – the power of the collective effort; the ability to co-produce a movement to change the world.

We were inspired by the recent video of Michael Teoh from Malaysia. Michael correctly reminds us all, that social media has provided a new platform to connect; to listen; to [...]

Texting – Do Your Kids Know the Risks? (0)

A study from Mediamark Research and Intelligence, shows that cell phone ownership among children has increased 68% in the past five years. Twenty percent of U.S. children ages 6-11 currently own a cell phone, up from 11.9% of children in 2005. The most dramatic increase has been among 10-11
year olds (+80.5%).

The study highlights just what [...]

Bubble Wrap Celebrates 50 Years….Now Protecting a New Generation of Kids! (1)

Bubble Wrap turned fifty this week. Over its fifty year history, Bubble Wrap has protected everthing from packing vases to medical equipment. Now, it seems to have a new role. Bubble Wrap is now protecting our next Generation of kids – Generation Z, The Bubble Wrap Kids!

According to McCrindle Research, “this generation of [...]

GenZ Are Coming – Are You Ready? (0)

Here is a great summary of the Generations, including (our favorite) Generation Z. It is estimated that this next Generation are 23 million strong and growing.

What are they saying about this next Generation?

Generation Z live in a world of instant gratification and will continue to thrive on acceleration and next, next, next. [...]

Video Games are Good for Kids…. (0)

A Pew Internet and American Life Project study reports that video game playing is essentially universal among teens of both genders — and the organization believes that gaming can have a positive social impact on teens, potentially raising awareness of social issues or spurring interest in helping others.