Teen net-researcher danah boyd (@zephoria) has been
taking parental questions about teens' use of the net on
Twitter and here are her responses.
The Virtual Rush summer camp program is prepping a
series of game development study sessions for
Philadelphia area high schoolers and college students.
The two-week camp will be held multiple times between
June and August of this year.
Carla Engelbrecht Fisher presented on designing games for children at the 2009 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Sandra Day O'Connor's initiative to engage young people with the judicial system through web-based/interactive media.
Open source programming languages for kids. A review of scrath and other open source programming tools for kids
What do kids learn by building robots? Is this the best way to learn those skills?
This Web site hosts several music games for children of all ages, including “Musical Sketch Pads” and “Rhythm Band.” Both games involve selecting instruments and placing notes on a blank page, thus composing songs that can be played on the computer after their completion.
TotSpot is a place for parents to publish a page about their kids and share with family and friends. It's part online babybook, parent journal, and social network. Childhood is an ongoing story and TotSpot is the first site that makes it super easy for parents to securely share their kid's story with friends and family.
Join me on my mission to change the way our children are eating. Together, we’ll tackle outdated district spending policies, commodity-based food service organizations, political platforms with no mention of school food or child health — and ultimately the USDA — to ensure that kids everywhere have wholesome, nutritious, delicious food at school.
From birth, today?s kids learn about the world in a completely different way than previous generations did. Experts discuss the advantages -- and what has been lost.