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Children
Should Toddlers Use Tablets and Smartphones After All?
New research suggests that using screens may in fact yield slight benefits to very young children when it comes to learning
5 Dependable iPhone and iPad Apps That Filter Content for Kids
“What is that?” I heard my 7-year-old shriek from his room. I ran in to find him and my younger son watching a video of a woman giving birth. It was shocking to them — and especially shocking to me because I thought we had all …
Lights, Camera, Learn: SchoolTube Strives to Be YouTube for K-12 Education
Can sharing facts you learn in class be as fun as sharing the latest “Call Me Maybe” parody on YouTube?
That’s what SchoolTube says. The free website claims to be “the nation’s largest teacher-moderated K-12 video-sharing …
Toys ‘R’ Us Offers Children a Cheap Tablet with Weak Specs
A tablet designed for young children, like the one Toys “R” Us just announced, seems like a good idea in theory. Instead of giving up your precious iPad, Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire, why not give kids a tablet of their own, pre-loaded …
FBI Releases ‘Child ID’ App You’ll Hopefully Never Have to Use
The FBI has released a free iPhone app that can be used if your child goes missing. Called “Child ID,” the app “provides a convenient place to electronically store photos and vital information about your children so that it’s literally right at hand if you need it,” according to an FBI press release.
The release continues, “You can …
Can Facebook Ruin Your Child’s Brain?
In a post on his Guardian blog, Martin Robbins admonishes some flimsy science in an article from the Daily Mail. The title of the article in question pretty much says it all: “Facebook and Twitter are creating a vain generation of self-obsessed people with child-like need for feedback, warns top scientist.”
The article posits that …
House Approves Data-Mongering ISP Snooping Bill (and What That Means for You)
The Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 was approved Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives, and will force internet service providers (ISPs) to keep logs of their customers for up to one year for police review.
CNET reports that the bill is intended to crack down on child pornography, and will include …
Apple Slapped with Class-Action Suit Over iPhone In-App Game Purchases
Apple is being hit by a class-action lawsuit after ruffling the feathers of few annoyed parents in Phoenixville, Penn. The nature of the lawsuit concerns free iOS games that allow in-app purchases, which previously made it easy for children to run up their parents’ credit cards with in-game purchases.
Apple Insider reports that the …
The iPad as a Kid’s Learning Device
This article has been cross-posted from our partner site, Technologizer.
His name is Bridger Wilson, and he’s two years old. He’s just like any other toddler, full of imagination. But Bridger’s father Mike has bought him an iPad. It’s not immediately clear how much experience that Bridger has had with the device previous to the taking …
Sci-fi Bedtime Story Says ‘Goodnight, Gom Jabbar’
If you remember falling to sleep while one of your parents read Goodnight Moon at your bedside, and if you also remember the first time you read Dune and found yourself wide awake late into the night with thoughts of ornithopters, sandworms, and spice – well, Goodnight Dune is going to be right up your sietch.
Julia Yu’s wonderful …
“Credit Card Bait” In-App Purchases Worries Parents
Although many apps are free in the App Store, a lot of them require in-app purchases to use all the functionalities of the program. The problem occurs when people don’t realize that they are being billed large amounts. According to one group, a lot of times these purchase trap apps are games targeted toward kids, who click on the costly …
