Chris Crowell is a veteran kindergarten teacher and contributing editor to Children’s Technology Review, a web-based archive of articles and reviews on apps, technology toys and video games. Download a free issue of CTR here. Top 5 Apps Your Kids Will Love This Week 1. Toca Band $1.99 Ages
Top 5 Apps Your Kids Will Love This Week
Chris Crowell is a veteran kindergarten teacher and contributing editor to Children’s Technology Review, a web-based archive of articles and reviews on apps, technology toys and video games. Download a free issue of CTR here. Top 5 Kids Apps Spot the Dot $3.99Ages 3-upOverall rating: 4.8 out of
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Tests of iris-scanning technology were derailed in a central Florida school district recently after parents expressed outrage that they weren’t told about the program before their kids’ eyes were scanned. However, iris scanning could provide essential information to parents of bus-riding kids
Top 5 Apps Your Kids Will Love This Week
Chris Crowell is a veteran kindergarten teacher and contributing editor to Children’s Technology Review, a web-based archive of articles and reviews on apps, technology toys and video games. Download a free issue of CTR here. Top 5 Kids Apps 1. Math Doodles Price: $2.99Age: 5+Overall rating:
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The combination of a slow, hot Friday in August and an excellent interactive Google Doodle can be murder on your productivity. And Friday’s Doodle, a soccer penalty shoot-out where you play the goalie, was particularly addictive. The balls went faster and faster, so it was hard to beat a high
Apple Is Considering Renaming Beats Music, Not Shutting It Down
Apple is considering making changes at Beats Music, not shutting down the service.Image: Lester Cohen/WireImage Apple is considering making a bunch of changes at Beats Music, but shutting down the subscription streaming service isn’t one of them. ‘It’s not true,’ Tom Neumayr, a spokesman for
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John C. Havens is the founder of The H(app)athon Project and author of the upcoming book H(app)y — The Value of Well Being in a Digital Economy (Tarcher/Penguin, 2014). He can be reached @johnchavens. Big data is getting personal. People around the globe are monitoring everything from their
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The holiday season is just around the corner – the “season of giving.” Well, let’s call this the “season of buying” because before all that giving happens, you’ll have to find gifts for all those special someones in your life. At Mashable, we’re constantly writing about the newest and coolest
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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Over the past six months, mobile payments skyrocketed from an industry conversation to mainstream news, fueled by myriad
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The children are our future, and while they enjoy their fair share of Angry Birds sessions and Twilight marathons, they’re a pretty innovative and impressive bunch. Below, we’ve outlined five projects that show the young’uns are in control and will use technology to make the world a better
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