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ORIGAMI-KIDS is a free site that illustrates to make unique folded Origami Airplanes that you'll find nowhere else. Some are easy to folding. All are flying origami as well as PAPER AIRPLANE, but all are fun to fold and fly. No scissors, glue, or tape required for the paper planes or paper boat folding. 

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Archive of Children's Poetry

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TinyTap is a new iPad application designed for kids which introduces a different angle on the “record-your-own-voice” storybooks craze, by offering a playable book or game you and your kids can customize with your own photos, camera shots, music, narration, and more.

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Today’s Telegraph UK reports that sending kids to school, full time, and teaching them reading, writing and arithmetic before the age of six can be hazardous to natural development.

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The BYOT movement, which stands for “Bring Your Own Technology” has students toting more than just pencils and paper to class — it has them bringing their cellphones, laptops and even their handheld gaming systems into school too. So what exactly does BYOT mean for education, and how is it changing the way we think of tech in the classroom? Let’s take a closer look.

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Here is a list of excellent books for parents, teachers and librarians to share with kids who are learning to read.

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As I started a go-to list of the best educational iPad apps for kids, the list got so long, I split up my posts into categories. So, today we’ll start with my favorite iPad apps for literacy — reading and writing for toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary-age kids.

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Stuck in line at the grocery store? Entertain little ones with these free (or cheap) iPhone apps and games, perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, and big kids. For even more apps, check out these 25 More iPhone and iPod Touch games for kids.

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We're a community of kids who make.

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The drive to Carson High School carries you past the fix-it shops, taco joints, weedy lots, and family-run panaderias and carnicerías that line the avenues in this part of  blue-collar Los Angeles County. High cyclone fencing divides the 30-acre campus of rectangular cream-and-blue buildings into small warrens of activity as many of the school’s 2800 students stream outdoors for the lunch hour.

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Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.

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Even though I believe there's a lot of learning going on 
when kids are involved in creative play, crafting, games, cooking, 
and all the other things we come together to do, 
here are a few of our posts which focus 
on tips, games, and activities that are fun and educational!

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...provides 2,340 story starters for kids.
Now with three times as many story starters!

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A new study conducted by the Birmingham Science City organisation, UK, has questioned just how often children are now using search engines for information — instead of asking living, breathing counterparts such as their parents or teachers.

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Books with vivid imagery, exciting stories and strong characters will not only entertain your child but set them up to enjoy reading for the rest of their life.

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BBC research shows the cost of a PC can be a significant barrier to getting people online at home. With this in mind, we worked closely with our partners, such as Race Online, The Post Office and 3, to help make getting access to the internet a reality for all, regardless of financial situation or technical ability.

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The best math sites on the web.

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Tinkatolli is the Epic World of Tinkering
where EVERYTHING you do helps you level up - even stuff you do in REAL LIFE!

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New York City is a hotbed of technological innovation, but many of its public school students aren’t graduating with the skills needed to be a part of “Silicon Alley,” as it’s known. Scott Schwaitzberg, vice president of Activate, is planning to fix that problem by helping to build a public high school designed to teach the city’s youth everything they need to know about writing software and the tech industry.

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As someone who went from the corporate world and then the government world to the ever-changing online world, I know how the world of yesterday is rapidly becoming irrelevant. I was trained in the newspaper industry, where we all believed we would be relevant forever — and I now believe will go the way of the horse and buggy.

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