A pre-pilot will start on 1 January 2012. Pre-pilot means that it will be small and there will be modest human intervention just to see children's reactions in order to better design the real, hands-off, dropping-out-of-the-sky format.
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Comics on the iPad: will the new iPad attract paper readers? - 2 views
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Comics on the iPad: will the new iPad attract paper readers?
By Charles Jade
Study Confirms What We've All Expected: Children's Lit Has Exploded | GeekDad | Wired.com - 0 views
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Study Confirms What We've All Expected: Children's Lit Has Exploded
By Ethan Gilsdorf
How Computer Games Help Children Learn | MindShift - 1 views
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"@shiv53: How Computer Games Help Children Learn http://t.co/sfEzmQTg"
Teach finance to elementary, middle and high school children using stories - 5 views
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Disclosure: I am the author of these children's books.
How Do We Prepare Our Children for What's Next? | MindShift - 4 views
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By Tina Barseghian
...Fast forward a couple of decades (or more) and we see that the career landscape has changed so drastically that jobs need new definitions. Social media strategist, app developer, mobile web engineer?
Children's A.D.D. Drugs Don't Work Long-Term - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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Interesting NY Times article on the use of Ritalin in the States
I want to give poor children computers and walk away - opinion - 14 December 2011 - New... - 6 views
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Can tablet computers "parachuted" into remote areas transform childhood learning, asks Nicholas Negroponte .. One Laptop per Child (OLPC), even after giving out nearly 3 million laptops, is still criticised along the following lines: "Negroponte believes that you can give a child a laptop and walk away." Whether I ever believed that or not is now secondary. It became such a refrain that I finally asked myself about a year ago: "What if you could?"
UK children's media consumption at home 2011 | Data Plus Insight - 31 views
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Ofcom, the UK government body which regulates and supervises the media, published a report on October 25th which is arguably the most detailed and up to date study of children's media behaviour. The report specifically concentrated on how much time children spend on the Internet; gaming - playing games on a computer, X-box or PlayStation; watching television; or listening to the radio.
For Children of Same-Sex Couples, a Student Aid Maze - NYTimes.com - 28 views
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Because these students cannot fully portray their family’s finances, the amount of aid they receive may not fairly reflect their needs.
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officials from the Department of Education, which issues it, said that applicants with two married mothers or fathers must fill out the Fafsa as if the couple were divorced.
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For Children of Same-Sex Couples, a Student Aid Maze
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" Because these students cannot fully portray their family's finances, the amount of aid they receive may not fairly reflect their needs."
Schools are key to safeguarding runaway children | Education | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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Schools, police, and care agencies are all required to collect data on runaways, but the information is often not pulled together effectively or properly exchanged between the services.
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For Stansfield, the "key issue" is that schools know who to call, and that they call them as soon it becomes clear that someone has run away, even if it has been for just a few hours, as this behaviour can "quickly spiral"
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The Children's Society is calling for better training for teachers so they can help to identify children at risk of running away and take preventive action
International Children's Digital Library - 129 views
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Online books for all languages
ASCD Express 6.26 - Media Use Among U.S. Children: Where Are the Books? - 2 views
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"white youth consume an average of 8.5 hours of media content and black, Hispanic, and Asian youth each consume about 13 hours...But when asked how much time they spent using computers for schoolwork, the rates ranged from 16 to 20 minutes a day, according to the study."
Helping Children Become More Mindful | Tufts Now - 74 views
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kids are distracted and a little on edge these days, says the Tufts psychologist Christopher Willard
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Child’s Mind: Mindfulness Practices to Help Our Children Be More Focused, Calm and Relaxed (Parallax Press)
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The central idea of mindfulness, he says, is to bring a very focused awareness of the present moment into our everyday lives through things such as breathing exercises and actively listening to and observing the world around us.
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Corporate Interests Threaten Children's Welfare - NYTimes.com - 17 views
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Now that corporations are considered "people," their interests are trumping the traditional protections of children, to the detriment of children's health and welfare.
What If We Stopped Teaching Kids What They Cannot Do? | HASTAC - 3 views
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How do we understand our gifts without the certificate, the diploma? That's the challenge.
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And, sadly, much of our formal education is about standardizing exactly
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that shift, in teaching that kindergarten child who believes she can do absolutely anything that, no, she's a poor reader, or bad in math, or a poor speller, or a poor artist or has no musical talent (as my husband was once told when he was a child:
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Great post by Cathy Davidson:
"How do we understand our gifts without the certificate, the diploma? That's the challenge."
THE PLANETESME PLAN - 1 views
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A good looking blog about kids' books.
