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Students and Twitter
By Janet Meiners - Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:03pm.Ever since teaching 6th graders about blogging, I’ve paid more attention to how social media sites can enhance learning. Blogging certainly can improve writing skills and at the same time introduce children to ideas that will make them more marketable when they hit the job force (assuming they do).
One Laptop Per Child Needs a Spreadsheet Solution
By Ross Mayfield - Mon, 01/28/2008 - 1:19pm.Dan Bricklin has ported the SocialCalc spreadsheet to the OLPC XO as an Open Source project.
Generation Google: True and False
By Jordan McCollum - Sat, 01/19/2008 - 7:11pm.Kids these days. All crazy with the texting and the AIM and the Facebook and the Google. I just don’t understand them.
PBS Site for Kids 3 to 6
By Janet Meiners - Fri, 01/18/2008 - 12:03pm.Small children are fighting their parents for the mouse these days. Pretty soon they’ll demand their own laptops and want money to spend on their own music and web sites.
CBS Partners with Digg on Election Coverage
One Laptop Per Child Loses Intel
By Janet Meiners - Mon, 01/07/2008 - 12:59pm.Intel announced they are leaving the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project. OLPC produces low-cost laptops for developing nations. Fighting and differences between the two couldn’t be bridged. It was six months ago Intel and OLPC founder Nick Negroponte announced they would work together to produce the laptops..
Club Penguin Kids Can Make A Difference
By Mike Sachoff - Tue, 12/04/2007 - 10:14am.Club Penguin, the virtual gaming world for kids, will allow it members to donate some of their virtual coins to charity.
Google Expands Contests to Pre-College Kids
By Glenn Letham - Wed, 11/28/2007 - 6:02pm.Building on the success of the Summer of Code Contests, Google has expanded the contests to now include the pre-College community..
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