Connected Camps’ co-founder and CEO reviews the research on playing games with your kids, talks to three game-savvy parents, and reflects on her own parenting experiences to gauge how gaming with kids does or doesn’t work out in real life.
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Connected Camps’ co-founder and CEO reviews the research on playing games with your kids, talks to three game-savvy parents, and reflects on her own parenting experiences to gauge how gaming with kids does or doesn’t work out in real life.
Read moreLike many parents, I struggle to strike a screen life balance. For better or worse, the portability of our digital life has disintegrated many of
Read moreWhile some parents worry that their kids’ online life is a poor substitute for real world interactions, the reverse may be true for some children
Read moreHow to manage kids’ gaming time is a hot parenting topic. Parents worry about gaming “addiction,” “Minecrack,” and their kids’ lack of enthusiasm for offline
Read moreTo many, unschooling is a radical approach that is practiced in the exotic outer rings of education. Its rejection of formal education in favor of
Read moreIn 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
Read moreOnline 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
Read moreBy Sarah Otts and Natalie Rusk, members of the MIT Scratch Team In our research at the MIT Media Lab, we have found that children
Read more90% of parents in the U.S. want their child to learn coding and 71% of new STEM jobs will be in computer science. Still, the
Read moreOnly 26% of computing professionals are women, which is down from 36% in 1991. Millions of dollars are being spent on closing this gender gap,
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