Kids put their records on
So whilst we’ve been busy fretting about whether a record collection can be passed onto future generations if they’re digital, let alone whether they’ll even listen to music like that, it turns out those wily youths have been out buying vinyl anyway. Who knew?
Codeathing: Learn HTML in 3 minutes
I know a thing or two about HTML. No, literally: I know how to format text and do paragraphs. That’s about it. Which is why I got a kick out of Code a Thing, a fun little website that just popped up.
How PktMny is playing its part in helping improve financial literacy
With children’s financial literacy in the news in the UK and worldwide, we asked Louise Hill – COO and Founder of children’s allowance platform PktMny – to tell us how she believes services like hers are part of the solution.
Zuckerberg: Bringing the internet to everyone
As a guy with a reasonably popular website, Zuckerberg’s in a good position to spread internet connectivity across the globe. In fact, he believes it’s an important thing to do.
The analogue spellchecker
Are spellcheckers making our kids worse at noticing their own mistakes? Does autocorrect help or hinder development of literacy? The amount of typing kids do compared to physical writing must be having some sort of effect, for better or for worse; and if it’s the latter, might a digital pen be the answer?
The Intel children are our future
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair isn’t the snappiest name, but the event itself is rather brilliant: every year, high school students from around the globe compete by showing off the tech innovations they came up with. This year was a doozy.
Ctrl+F where no one has searched before
Playing amongst the stars looks kind of unlikely to happen any time soon, but there are still ways to channel your kids’ love of the cosmos; helping find galaxies, for example. And they don’t even need to leave the house to do it.
What did we learn from Google I/O?
Last Wednesday Google held their I/O conference, which is basically a chance for them to show off all the neat stuff they’ve got in the pipeline. So, what exactly did they show off? That’s kind of a big question, since they unveiled something in the region of a zillion things (guesstimation). For starters, here are some Quib.ly-friendly projects that got revealed.
Field trips with Google Glass
So Google Glass might already have something of an image problem – not entirely the product’s fault – but what about the good stuff? Can it, I don’t know, change … Continue reading
Five places for kids to learn coding
There are a lot of websites offering lessons in coding specifically for kids. Here’s five of the best, just to lend you a hand.
Holly
Quib.ly
Tom
Chanda Gohrani
Quib.ly Team Blog 