Technology 
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 [...]
Texting – Do Your Kids Know the Risks?
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 [...]
Kids MMOs – What are Your Kids Playing?
Thank you to Boing Boing for the image of the most popular kids MMOs. What are your kids playing?
Check out Poptropica…
“Always On” – Are Our Kids Addicted to the Internet?
We have all by now read the results from the Kaiser Family Foundation study about the fact that the average young American spends more than seven and a half hours a day using a smart phone, a computer, television or other electronic device.
These results caused us to ask – how is being “always on” [...]