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Level Up to Bridge the Digital Disconnect with Your Kids
In today’s frenetic media ecology, parents find it harder and harder to stay on top of their kids’ digital life. They might live under one
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How Online Communities Lower Social Barriers for Kids Across the Spectrum
Online communities let geographically separated kids connect around shared interests, and can also offer some distinct advantages over face-to-face discussions. For example, some parents of
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What We Did This Summer: Ender Dragons, Parkour, Cow Paradise, and Turtle Bombers in Minecraft Camp
It’s hard to believe that we have said our last summer camp farewells and kids are headed back to school. Hope all our friends on
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Introducing Connected Camps Afterschool
How do kids get better at things they care about? Mostly by practicing, although practice alone is not enough. Interest and opportunity must be there
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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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Are All Minecraft YouTube Videos a Waste of Time?
SallyGreenGamer is a mom, a gamer, and a YouTube star. Her audience? Kids who love Minecraft. Her YouTube channel features videos of her playing the
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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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Design Games in Minecraft with Connected Camps
Connected Camps brings the fun, creativity, and social experience of summer camp online. Your child can learn to code, use redstone, design fantastical cities, create
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Sky’s the Limit: Just for Girls Online Summer Camps
Celebrating the Power of Girls’ Creativity We believe being a girl comes with special superpowers and our Just for Girls online summer camps are designed
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