GeoGuessr: Around the world in 80 clicks
Here’s a fun little thing I spent my weekend on – and since I have the attention span of a small child, that’s a guarantee it’ll keep your kids enraptured. GeoGuessr is a browser-based game that turns Google Maps into a cool guessing game.
Amazon’s TV Pilots – For Kids!
Amazon has shared six ‘pilots’ of kid’s shows, asking users to vote for which one they want to get a full series. Six pilots? Ugh, sounds like a lot of investment in a show that might not even exist soon. So don’t worry, we watch them for you.
Facebook for a good cause
Launched at the end of April, the ‘ethical social network’, Peace 21 encourages users to help find missing people, celebrate births, commemorate heroes and lost loved ones, champion good causes and donate to charitable projects.
Five essential websites for kids, from Quib.ly members
The internet is as full of amazing, inspirational, informative stuff as it is full of Harlem Shakes. Focussing on the former, however, we asked you what you thought were the essential websites all kids should look at – and here’s what you came up with!
Where are the web whizzkids now?
What happened to that guy, MySpace Tom? And what happened to all those other titans of web 1.0 industry?
The benefit of hindsight, online
Whilst the current generation of tech users have gone a little overboard with the oversharing, no-holds-barred free speech safe zone of the internet. Could our children benefit by learning to be more responsible online?
Twitter party: New kids on the blog. #blogkids
There are many a fabulous kids blogs on the internet, covering everything from fashion to technology to education. And there are many more kids who have been thinking of starting … Continue reading
What we learned this week #25
Here we all are, together again, gathered ‘round the warming glow of the flatscreen, to look back on another week of exciting, occasionally ridiculous, technology and parenting news.
Can you fool Facebook into keeping your stuff private?
Signing up to Facebook means signing away, to a degree, anything you post on there into their grasp. Think twice about what you post on there – and teach your child to do the same.
Is the internet really a dark and dangerous place?
Julie Lynn Evans, ‘one of the [UK’s] foremost child psychotherapists’, says it can be. She is ‘convinced that the internet… makes any problem more urgent, more dramatic’ and that has resulted directly in a worsening in the behaviour of teens.
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