Tech companies monitor schoolkids across America. These parents are making them delete the data
From The Guardian Parents at a public school district in Maryland have won a major victory for student privacy: tech companies that work with the school district now have to…
The Key To Raising Brilliant Kids? Play A Game
From NPR We all want to raise smart, successful kids, so it’s tempting to play Mozart for our babies and run math drills for kindergartners. After all, we need to…
Gen Z kids are the stars of their parents’ social media — and they have opinions about that
Reposted from The Washington Post, by Caitlin Gibson Alison Santighian flicks her finger over her smartphone screen, and her Facebook profile scrolls past in a blur. She is looking for…
When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online
For several months, Cara has been working up the courage to approach her mom about what she saw on Instagram. Not long ago, the 11-year-old—who, like all the other kids…
Alternative ideas for kids and iPhone
A year ago, I spent months undercover on the popular video-making app, Musical.ly. (It’s since been renamed. Nice try, but we see you hiding your lame-app self behind TikTok.) My…
Young kids and screen time on the rise
Ryan Johnson for NPR It’s not your imagination: Tiny tots are spending dramatically more time with tiny screens. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization, just released new numbers on media…
Secret apps that kids use – and you should be aware of.
From the NYT Alexander Graham Bell didn’t expect his telephone to be widely used for prank calls. And Steve Jobs was chary of children using his iThings. But social media…
Algobrix coding lego toys for kids
Looks like a great toy to learn to code. See more at Algobrix Algobrix teaches kids how to code by guiding them through the steps of programming a robot’s…
The case against laptops or tablets in school
“For the past 15 years, educators have debated, exhaustively, the perils of laptops in the lecture hall. Professors complain that laptops are distraction machines; defenders say that boring classes are…
Generation Smartphone
“One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d…
