Time for the Kids to Become the Online Teachers
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Change has always been the domain of the young. From the end of the Vietnam War to the Arab Spring, it’s not parents who are out there advocating change, it’s the youth. In the online world, it’s time to get kids, especially the web-savvy ones, to take a stronger role in their own safety and etiquette. I attended the annual …
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Ebooks versus Apps for Kids
What’s the difference between a kid’s app and a kid’s ebook? Oh, about $10. There are a few other differences, sure. E-books tell more of a story and have less in-book games. Apps have more interactivity and play. But just by calling something an ebook and not an app you can command a higher price. Call it an app and …
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Can Gamification Help Solve the Kids’ Privacy Problem?
Sigh. We’ve seen this one before. The stage is set for the next bout between concerned parents and watchdog groups and web and mobile sites that cater to kids. Because it’s so easy to glean information about kids habits, whereabouts and friends using the technologies in today’s smartphones, there’s a movement to look for ways to, an minimum make kids …
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History is Made at CES Kids@Play: 6 Mobile Devices Just for Kids
Here’s the logic. If kids covet their parents iPads and iPhones, and if Android devices are beginning to catch up on sales of phones and tablets, will kids then want their own Android devices. Hard to predict, but at CES Kids@Play, Warren Buckleitner, moderated a history making panel that looked at a new crop of mobile devices designed just for …
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MyKeepOn Combats Autism
The adorable, plain-looking robot KeepOn was initially invented to be a therapists tool in helping to treat autistic kids. Developed by Marek Michalowski, the idea was for a therapist to control the toy from a remote location using a video camera embedded in the robot to observe the child. The simple facial expression and its yellow-non threatening blob shape, as …
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Nearly 100% of Kids in US Play Video Games
According to a new kids and gaming study by the NPD group, video gaming popularity among kids ages two to 17 is still growing at a rapid pace with 91% of kids in the US using electronic games of some type. Equally as impressive, the market for gamers gets younger and younger with preschool gaming showing the biggest increase. KidScreen offers …
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Brazil Leads in Pre-Teen Social Network Usage
Trend Micro, an Internet safety and security company, recently released findings of a technology use survey of parents and kids across the globe. Interestingly, Brazilian parents and kids seem to have a growing, and perhaps the largest, problem with social networking. While the survey asked parents about smartphones and their kids, far fewer of those surveyed had actually purchased such a …
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Trendspotting: Parents Earn Play Rewards for Kids
I first saw this with Knowledge Adventure’s Spa Adventure game – a Facebook social game where moms could earn points for their kids to spend in the virtual JumpStart world. Now WebKinz from Ganz is offering parents a chance to do the same. In Ganz Parents Club, parents of WebKinz world devotees can earn extra KinzCash and items for the …
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