Check out these interesting articles on kids and technology! National Wildlife Federation Introduces Game Apps for Kids With apps for the iPad, iPod, and iPhone, the National Wildlife Federation hopes to encourage children to explore the great outdoors by capturing their curiosity at home. (prweb.com) Give Kids The Gift Of Gaming. Seriously. The “gamification” of […]

Check out these interesting articles on kids and technology! How Disney’s Club Penguin Became the Biggest Social Network for Kids A Disney site that blends education with gaming and networking has over 150 million profiles, making it the most surprisingly successful kids’s social networking site of all time. (mashable.com) Facebook Aims to Prevent Suicide A […]

The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that a social networking website for children agreed to settle charges that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The site collected the first and last names, the dates of birth, and the cities of origin of its 5,600 underage users. All of this is illegal under the […]

Check out these interesting articles on kids and technology! Parents will enjoy these iPhone and iPad apps (Parents.com) Mom’s Facebook Community Helps Diagnose Her Ailing Son (Mommyish.com) New regulations for food, beverage advertising toward children (Healthkey.com) Using touch screens and apps to treat autism (mercurynews.com) The Internet Is Making Your Kids Think Differently, Not Less […]

The parents we talk to are excited by the doors technology can open for their children. Wether their kids are navigating the depths of the PPG Aquarium’s Big Ocean Tank with Reefbot or exploring their own back yards with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Digital Discovery Room one thing is clear–a dose of the […]