Update: July 30, 2014 Scratch Junior (scratchjr.org) was just released for the iPad today, and it's FREE. Thx @360Kid for sharing that news! Original Post June 13, 2011: I get far too geeky and jargon-ish when it comes to enthusiasm over kids’ science, technology, engineering, and math innovations, (STEM) in hopes of engaging and retaining girls in the field, so I’ll cap the … [Read more...]
Starting From Scratch: Making STEM Easy, Kid-Friendly & Fun
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Animation, childrens media, cloud computing, digital building blocks, digital gaming, Digital Media Learning, digital storytelling, digital-natives, Doodle4Google, edtech, encouraging STEM, free-education-research, game design, How-Stuff-Works, innovation, IO brush, ISTE 2011, kids coding, kids games, kids in tech, kids-fitness, KODU, Lincoln Logs 21st century, MIT, MIT Media Lab, NSF, open source, save the planet, Science, Scratch, Scratch tutorials, Splash!, STEM, UGC, Vanished
Money Management for Kids: Chores, Allowance & Digital Nagging
Part Two of our interview with PAYjr CEO David Jones includes one of the rarely used aspects of PAYjr's chore and allowance program (only 5% evidently) where parents can set up cell phone reminders for follow-through in cyber-nag style.Mind you, critics have cried foul that this is outsourcing parenting and discipline to tech gizmos, but frankly, I’m not one of ‘em. Nope. No … [Read more...]
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