How can you get high tech kids away from their screen?   One way hitting the store shelves soon is the Sky Viper QuadCopter from Skyrocket Toys. A QuadCopter sort of resembles a helicopter, but it has four rotors instead of one.    When all four blades spin the same speed, the copter goes straight [...]

Parents are mostly positive about their perceptions on how the new mobile devices like smartphones and tablets will be used to benefit education.  A just-released survey from Grunwald Associateshttp://www.grunwald.com/pdfs/Grunwald%20Mobile%20Study%20public%20report.pdf, the Learning First Alliance and AT&T  found that the most enthusiastic about the possibilities for mobile devices in education tend to be parents whose children already [...]

What kid doesn’t imagine a Disney Mash- Up?  Take one Mr. Incredible,  add a little Sulley, a dash of Lightening McQueen and whatdaygot?  You’ve got Disney InfINity… a new virtual world that lets kids create their own adventures based on their fav recent Disney characters.   To unlock the new virtual world you’re going to [...]

Screens, scientists tell us, are breeding grounds for ADD and ADHD. But one company says that answer to curing Attention Deficit Disorders can be purchased, on your TV screen and used on your computer screen to increase neural pathways and help increase attentiveness. ADD and ADHD have been featured in lots of news stories this [...]