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One Robot Per Child? Former Googler, Apple Engineer Tackle Educational Bots.
A Bay Area-based startup is working on $100 robots that will help kids learn to code.
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Club Penguin Waddles Into Mobile
An iPad companion app to Disney’s MMO-for-kids, Club Penguin, is slated to roll out today, the company said in a press release. Players will be able to customize and sync their penguin characters between the iPad app and the popular Web-only Flash game, and also play four mini games ported over from the Web. Disney Interactive VP Chris Heatherly (who sat down for a Q&A with AllThingsD last month) said the studio plans to update the app roughly once a month until the whole game experience is playable on mobile.Can These iPad Apps Teach Your Kid to Code?
Hopscotch and Kodable aim to teach kids the programming basics.
Code Alert: Tynker Wants to Teach Your Child to Tinker With Tech
A “learn to code” platform for youngsters in third through eighth grade tries to teach kids how to think like a programmer.
Hopscotch for iPad Makes Coding Kid-Friendly (Video)
Hopscotch, demoed at D: Dive Into Mobile today, is an iPad app designed to make coding fun for kids.
Wall Street Cautiously Optimistic About LeapFrog Q4
The educational toy company had a solid holiday season.
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U.S. Expands Child Online Privacy Law to Cover Apps, Social Networks
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday updated its decade-old rules governing children’s online privacy to reflect the growth of social networks and smartphone apps, but backed away from earlier proposals that could have made companies like Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc. more responsible for violations.GoldieBlox: A Construction Toy With a Story Line Builds Girls’ Interest in Engineering
The toy, which began as a Kickstarter project of Stanford University engineer Debbie Sterling, features a spunky inventor heroine.
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FTC Says Kid Apps Industry Needs “To Do a Better Job”
The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that most of the mobile apps aimed at kids collect and transmit data about the device on which they’re used and don’t disclose that practice to parents, in a report that criticized the privacy practices of the fast-growing industry.MiniTime: Kid-Friendly Trips, No Station Wagon Required
A new travel site, backed by some familiar faces. Particularly if you worked at Yahoo or Fox Interactive.