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CTR May 2013: ROBLOX, LEGOs and How Virtual Worlds Make Money
Children’s Technology Review, May 2013 Volume 21, No. 5, Issue 158
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iPad Apps for the Kindergarten Curriculum
by Warren Buckleitner
Last month a friend who is an elementary principal called me, and asked for a list of good apps to support the curriculum. I turned to our review database ...
An Examination of Research on Technology and Early Literacy from 1940 to 1990
by Warren Buckleitner, Originally written in May of 1994, updated in 2013 for the Dust or Magic eBook Retreat.
Q. What do flashmeters and iPads have in common?
A. They join the gadgetry ...
Amendments To COPPA and Protecting Children’s Privacy
By Elizabeth Bruns and Kimberly Nguyen, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
From the April 2013 Issue of Children’s Technology Review (pages 11-12).
Last December the Federal ...
Editor’s Choice March 2013
Here’s a summary of 14 top-rated products from this months issue. This month’s list includes some of the entries in the 2013 BolognaRagazzi Digital Prize. We’ve also included ...
CTR April 2013: Amazing Gardens, Apps for Kindergarten, COPPA is Coming
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10 Affordances of Multi-Touch
Here are the slides from my EETC presentation on April 4, 2013, in PDF format
PPT 10 Affordances
Pushing the Boundaries of Digital Storytelling: Ten Examples
Here is is the PDF of the presentation that I did on March 26 at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
Pushing the Boundaries of Digital Storytelling by Warren Buckleitner. Comments welcome.
Quotes: Maria Montessori
“The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.”
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“The things he sees are not just remembered; ...
CTR March 2013 The Art and the Science of the Children’s eBook
Children’s Technology Review
March 2013 Volume 21, No. 3, Issue 156
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Toca Boca + zinc Roe = Sago Sago
Here’s the exact “cut and paste” of today’s press release announcing the union of Toca Boca and zinc Roe merger:
Toca Boca Acquires zinc Roe Tickle Tap App ...
Interested in Making an App? Watch These
Here’s a set of videos that any aspiring app designer should watch. Most are from Dust or Magic.
CTR February 2013: 18 Editor’s Choice Awards; Stuffed Animals
In this issue: CTR, February 2013: Vol. 21, No 2, Issue 155
Welcome to February!
Here are this month’s headlines:
• CONFERENCES & EVENTS. The American International Toy ...
Mitch Resnik: Reading, Writing and Programming
Here are some ideas worth sharing from Mitch Resnik’s recent TEDx talk — about children and coding.
Tablets for Kids
Tablets for Kids: Which deliver the most bang for the buck?
You would’ve received this article 30 days ago if you were a CTR subscriber ($30/12 issues/year). From the December ...
How Big is the EdTech Market?
January 15, 2013 The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) released the following report last month that suggests opportunities and challenges in education funding ...
2013 BolognaRagazzi Digital Jurors
BolognaRagazzi Digital Award
The Jury of the BolognaRagazzi Digital Award will be consisting of international experts active in digital publishing and illustration.
Warren Buckleitner, Children’s ...
CTR January 2013: Trends, Predictions and the KAPi Awards
2012 —> Tablets with Android Apps, the Mini & Surface, The Android Awakening, Embodied Cognition and the Pedagogical Renaissance….
..not to mention “narrative driven ...
2013 KAPi Winners
Living in Digital Times and Children’s Technology Review Announce 2013 KAPi Award Winners
The Most Innovative in Children’s Technology to be honored on Thursday, January 10 ...
LEGO Announces LEGO Mindstorms EV3
This week at CES, LEGO unveiled Mindstorms EV3 ($350,www.LEGOeducation.us/mindstorms).
About the size of a bar of soap and powered by 6 AA batteries, the controller comes with the ...
LEGO Mindstorms Infographic
Here’s the “infographic” that will be released at CES 2013.
LEGO MINDSTORMS Infographic
Original Source: FTC Report on Children’s Apps
QUOTE TO NOTE: The first kids’ app report found that approximately 6% (23) of the apps reviewed indicated that the app allowed users to purchase additional content through an in-app ...
FTC Updates COPPA; Starts July 1 2013
The Federal Trade Commission adopted final amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule that strengthen kids’ privacy protections and give parents greater control ...
CES 2013 Map – LVCC and Venetian
Here is a map of CES 2013. Kids at Play is in N264.
The KAPi Awards will in the Venetian 7 PM Thursday at the Venetian.
Click on the map for a larger view.
Toca Hair Salon 2 Comes to Kindle Fire
This is an important announcement, because it is the first non-iOS Toca Boca app, that we know of. Here’s the text of the press release:
TOCA BOCA RELEASES TOCA HAIR SALON 2 ON ...
Tablets for Kids: 12-12-12 Timescast
I was sandwiched between the Superbowl and the Pope — not bad bookends.
Go to about half way for the segment that accompanies the New York Times coverage of children’s tablets.
Inside the World of Webkinz: An Interview With Creative Director Karl Borst
Read the PDF Version
by SCOTT TRAYLOR
Karl Borst is the Creative Director at Ganz for Webkinz; a position that has given him the front row on the turbulant world of children’s ...
Technology Enhanced Play in Amsterdam: Six Examples from Cinekid’s Medialab
BY WARREN BUCKLEITNER
There’s nothing like several hundred happy kids to pick up your day. That’s what I discovered inside an old brick warehouse located in the restored gasworks ...
CTR December 2012: Tablets for Kids — Which Deliver the Most Bang for the Buck?
Children’s Technology Review
December 2012
Vol. 20, No 12, Issue 153
Letter from the Editor
Tablets for Kids
Lookout iPad — the invasion of the Androids has begun. There’s Meep, ...
Amazon’s Kindle FreeTime Unlimited (But It Isn’t Really Free)
Today Amazon took a noteworthy step to make the Kindle Fire more of a children’s tablet, by announcing a content streaming program by subscription. Here’s the text of the ...
Fuhu announces 5 inch tablet called Nabi Jr.
Nabi Jr. is a $99 Android tablet with 5-inch (800×480) capacitive touch that serves double duty as a baby monitor and a karaoke machine. It runs Android ICS. The tablet comes ...
NYTimes Timescast Segment on Tech Infused Play
Last week I did a TimesCast to discuss some of the toys we’ve been reviewing.
It is the third segment in the show (about 1/2 way through).
Press Release: Night & Day Studios Merges With Scrollmotion
For Immediate Release
Night & Day Studios Becomes One of the Largest Independent Kidsʼ Mobile App Companies in the World
Chooses an Unconventional Approach to Growth
PORTLAND, ...
CTR November 2012: Why the iPad Mini is “Just Right”
Children’s Technology Review
November 2012
Vol. 20, No 11, Issue 152
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
For Kids, the iPad Mini is ...
We’re back! The CTR Server and Review Database has power!
We are pleased to announce that power is restored in our office as of Nov. 1, Thursday at 6 PM; and it is again possible to search the review database and download issues. Subscribers, ...
Welcome to Fall 2012 and Happy Halloween!
EDITOR’S LETTER (Please note: CTR is an ad-free, subscriber supported newsletter published monthly for $30/year. To become a subscriber, and get full access to this, and back ...
Using Abstract Screens For Real Experiences
CITATION: Buckleitner, W. (2012) How to Use Abstract Symbolic Screens to Get Real: A Roundup of Apps & Sites. Children’s Technology Review, September 2012 Vol 20, No. 12, ...
Duck Duck Moose Gets Golden Egg
BY SCOTT TRAYLOR
[Note: this is an excerpt from the October 2012 issue of CTR. The full article will be available to subscribers].
When it comes to apps that actively engage young ...
CTR September 2012: Abstract Screens for the Real World, Learn About Mars, 51 Reviews
Children’s Technology Review
September 2012 Vol. 20, No. 9 Issue 150
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And the Best Mars Curiousity Video is…
…. “Chemistry on Mars: The Curiosity Rover’s Mission”
As part of our monthly LittleClickers column, we hunt for quality YouTube videos on a high interest ...
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