Wired homeschooling families now have access to vast learning resources, and can transcend geographic limitations to network with other kids and families around the world.
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5 Days to Live or Die: Survival Summer Camp
Would you know what to do if you and fifteen others were trapped in a mine (or underwater, in a volcano, or ice dungeon) with only an iron axe and 10 pieces of beef jerky to go around? Find out what it takes to thrive in Survival Camp.
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Can Minecraft Help Raise A Generation of Good Gamers?
My kids are only toddlers but I recognize how critical it will be for me to teach them how to handle conflict more effectively. According
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How Libraries Can Build Communities with Minecraft
On Thursday afternoons, in the heart of the Beacon Hill Library in Seattle, you might find an animated group of youth on laptops designing parkour
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App Inventor: Block Based Programming
Product: MIT App Inventor is a free cloud-based tool that kids can use to create software applications for Android. App Inventor uses a block-based programming
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Minecraft Replay Mod: Create Your Own Minecraft Videos
Product: Replay Mod is a modification for Minecraft that allows you to record, replay, and share your gaming experiences. The videos are lightweight (even one-hour
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Twine: Create Your Own Stories and Games
Product: Twine is a free tool that allows kids to create interactive, nonlinear stories and games. You can create simple stories with Twine, then extend
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How Unschooling Families Leverage Digital Games and Connectivity
To many, unschooling is a radical approach that is practiced in the exotic outer rings of education. Its rejection of formal education in favor of
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Kids Learning and Inventing: JAM’s New Online Engineering Course
Product: Invent Your Own Machines (ages 9-14) Glows: A unique approach to online learning that is playful, social, and personalized. Grows: While the flexibility of
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Connected Camps Goes to Minefaire
Did you know that you can make a working calculator in Minecraft with redstone? Torches and repeaters can be combined to create binary signals with
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