Category: Technology
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Don’t fancy letting your kids at your iPad?
My daughter has been flying around my iphone since she was about 2. It’s loaded up with tons of fantastic educational games for her. However, there are times when I need to use my phone for work, but I also need her to be quiet in the background when I’m trying to make calls which…
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iPad Apps for Kids: Park Math HD
I was looking for an iPad app for my daughter that introduced basic addition and subtraction using picture stories and came across Park Math HD (£1.49) by Duck Duck Moose. I’ve come across their apps before and liked them. I do like this one as well; there are activities for counting, adding, subtracting and sorting…
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Ipad Apps for Kids: Puppet Pals HD
Yet, another fantastic Ipad app recommendation from my mate Danny Nicholson from The Whiteboard Blog. I absolutely love this app Puppet Pals, it’s also available for iphones but can’t help thinking the screen would be too small and fiddly for little fingers. Simply choose your characters, a background, resize the images and when you’re ready…
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Kids don’t watch TV!
I found this comment from Alice Taylor, a Bafta award-winning gamer, very interesting. It was during a panel discussion at Microsoft Soho Studios. Kinect has recently added National Geographic and Sesame Street to the Xbox peripheral allowing children to be more interactive with the games. They’re trying to move away from the Dora style attempt…
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Ipad Apps for Kids: Jellybean Count
I absolutely love this Ipad app, Jellybean Count and to boot, it’s FREE! It was recommended by my mate Danny Nicholson from The Whiteboard Blog. Children count the different colour of jellybeans and then use the same number of fingers to input their answers. For example, if there are 4 green jellybeans, they need to…