24 Video Games You Can Say Yes to After School
By Jeff Haynes, Common Sense Media Video Game Editor Summer's over, and school's back in session. Time to pull the plug on your kids' video games, right? Not so fast, Mom and Dad. To the great relief...
View ArticleFostering an Early Love of STEM Through The Power of Storytelling
It's no secret that the U.S. is at a crossroads when it comes to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. The U.S. is losing its lead in both research and development and creation of...
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A Buddhist Monk's Advice On Overcoming Tech Addiction
"iPads are great," laughed the Venerable Pomnyum Sunim, a Korean Buddhist monk and global humanitarian leader. But he added an important caveat: They're only great if you can use them without becoming...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling's Twitter Riddle Might Having Something To Do With 'Fantastic...
Calling all muggles, wizards and witches alike: Author J.K. Rowling has posed a riddle on Twitter and so far, neither brainpower nor magic has been able to crack it. The adventure started innocently...
View ArticleCrowdpac Helps Small Donors Find A Perfect Match In Politics
WASHINGTON -- Combining a unique data set with a nonpartisan outlook, a new organization called Crowdpac hopes to break out of the pack of political campaign innovators with a feature that helps...
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30 Plus Apps that Will Help you Grow your Business and Leverage Technology
In our working building marketing clouds we use an ever-changing suite of apps and products. Here are 30 of our favorites with a functional description of each. Sendy is a self hosted email newsletter...
View ArticleCalifornia Continues to Lead the Nation in Child Privacy Protection
As technology transforms every facet of our lives, educators are implementing exciting new tools that will help our children learn the critical skills they need and prepare them for the 21st Century...
View ArticleA Starter's Guide to Flipped Parenting
By now, you may have heard all about how iPads and other devices are creating "flipped classrooms". This is when lessons and lectures, formerly taught in person, are video recorded and assigned as...
View ArticleDetroit Homeowner Wants To Trade His House For An iPhone 6
If you want a new iPhone, but you're unwilling to take out a mortgage to afford it, you'll find a sympathetic ear in Larry Else. The real estate broker represents a Detroit homeowner who, after...
View ArticleWe Need a Media That Tells All of Our Stories
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. To understand the danger of a single story, start with a seed. It could be any seed, but a kernel of corn will do. In 1970, the genetic make up...
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Minecraft: The Game That Captured a Generation Through the Eyes of Serial...
In homes across the developed world, the words "put down the iPad" or "get off the computer" are spoken to children more often than "eat your vegetables" or "turn off the light." We parents fight tooth...
View ArticleThe Business of Defeating RFID Theft
Security implementation during the early stages of the tech boom entailed using software no more complicated than Notepad, with the real heavy lifting done by the coding skills of the engineer in...
View ArticleEvery Child Has A Story To Tell
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie so eloquently notes, it's shockingly easy to have one narrative of Africa, one story of its people. She talks about...
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Consumers to Tech Giants: All We're Asking for Is R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Heard about the latest big tech company pledging to finally end some infuriating mistreatment of consumers and make amends to them--without admitting any guilt and only after the Federal Trade...
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Books as a Trompe-L'oeil: On Fools and What Fools the Eye
Photo Copyright Cosmin Gheorghe I have been watching closely the war between Amazon and Hachette, as well as the conflict Amazon encounters in France. It seems that in both cases the parties cannot...
View ArticleThe Glaring Gender Dilemma Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Are Hiding From
The dominoes are falling in Silicon Valley: technology companies releasing their diversity data, apologizing for the sins of the past, and promising to do better. I know from my meetings with...
View Article'Rich Kids Of Tehran' Instagram Raises Eyebrows
An Instagram account called Rich Kids of Tehran is prompting headlines for more than just its subject matter. The account, which is modeled on the popular profile Rich Kids Of Instagram, posts photos...
View Article(VIDEO) Microsoft, as Publisher, Embraces Programmatic Solution With AppNexus
Inventory sold in the Microsoft ad exchange includes display and mobile apps and will eventually involve video, says Adam Roodman, Director, U.S. Targeting and Programmatic at Microsoft Advertising, in...
View Article(VIDEO) TubeMogul CEO: We Went Public to Remain Independent
The adtech industry continues consolidate into giant tech silos, with several owned by big publishers including AOL, Facebook, Google and Yahoo. But TubeMogul CEO Brett Wilson sees a conflict between...
View ArticleWhat Possible Reason Can EBay Have For Standing By Ultraconservative Climate...
The tech world’s strange love affair with ultraconservative ALEC is unraveling.
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