Posts Tagged with ‘children’

Today we have a very peculiar piece of news from Ukraine - both funny and at the same time very sad. Same as the rest of the world Ukraine is getting ready for the back to school day. In the meanwhile teachers in the region of Dnepropetrovsk participated in a conference of educators on Wednesday.
The questions discussed at the conference included equipping schools with computers and teaching children the basics of computer science in schools. The results of the discussion [...]

I never seem to run out of material for one of my favorite topics: keeping children safe online. We've had New York's E-Stop legislation, and the equally useless MySpace agreement with most of the states' attorneys general. Next up? An Internet Safety Technical Task Force to “focus on identifying effective online safety tools and technologies” for keeping children and teens safe online. The task force has real teeth here, tasked with preparing quarterly reports as well as a final report [...]

Here’s something I didn’t expect to read this morning. Virtual worlds are big stuff.
The kid-oriented variety, anyhow. Indeed, The New York Times reported today that despite the less-than-stellar magnetism attributed to the teen- and adult-specific gamespace/marketplace called Second Life, the places on the Web reserved for the youngest of computer-savvy generations are quite the attraction these days. So much so that Disney and other companies are investing heavily in new environments built to attract children with a wide range [...]

Some would say there are a touch too many social networks planted throughout the “tubes” of our planet. Some would be right. But there are a few networks that serve particular purposes and do a good job of catering to their target demographic. So there’s reason to ask if, among the MySpaces and the MOGs, there exists a network friendly to the many children who’ve grown up connected to the Web from their earliest days of coherence? If one has [...]

News of one of my favorite Web 2.0 programs, One Laptop Per Child, and its upcoming roll-out of 2500 computers for some of the world's poorest kids. The press release announced that the project is about to distribute the first installment of the neat little PC's to eight nations this month. This installment is an "experimental" model for the mass production of the little "Green and White Machines" set for July of this year.
The $150 laptops are a technological triumph [...]