Education 2.0 & 3.0

What are the best educational movies to watch with your kids? If you have no ideas, check this post. We collect the top 10 best educational movies of all time.

Video calls can be a harsh reminder of the sudden changes in your child's life.

Do you know how to teach your kids about money? Think back to your childhood. Who taught you how to manage money? Who taught you to write a check? Who explained what compound interest is? You may have learned to write a check in Life Skills class in school or perhaps Mom and Dad showed you. And your parents may have even taught you to manage money. But I’m going to guess no one explained the more complicated stuff like compound interest. Heck, could you even explain it to your kids now? And yet, in many ways, our lives revolve

Every year there are new tech toys for kids on the hottest most wanted list and parents run around in December trying desperately to get hold of sold out toys. If it moves, flies or makes noise, it’s sure to be a hit. Some of the ideas for new toys on the market will have you scratching your head and thinking what will they come up with next?

There are loads of interactive toys that are perfectly designed to minimise screen time, or even get them a little more involved with their favorite technology. From coding wands to robot unicorns, check out the list below of the hottest tech toys for kids in 2019.

(CNN)There is, inevitably, a gap between the parents we are and the parents we think we are. Not unlike algorithms, we rely on the past to inform our parenting decisions in the present. But this world keeps on turning, and the parenting present is never quite like the past.

In his new book, "The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World," Jordan Shapiro considers how this gap is playing out in our children's screen time. Many parents see themselves as dutiful, and at least occasionally wise, guides for their children. We help them make good decisions at school, with friends and on the sports field. But when it comes to digital lives, many kids tend to be steering the ship on their own.

Kids Invent Stuff is the YouTube channel where 5-11 year olds have the chance to get their invention ideas built by real engineers. We do this to give more primary school kids the chance to engage with real engineering projects.

Kids are encouraged to submit their ideas for inventions to solve a different challenge each month. Ideas can be submitted as drawings or videos uploaded below. The most creative inventions are showcased on our channel and each month one idea is built and tested on camera, with hilarious consequences.

Since the unprecedented success of Serial, podcasts have become a more popular form of mainstream entertainment. Not only are many adults listening for fun, but some teachers are bringing podcasts into their classrooms as a new kind of text. Teachers like Alexa Schlechter, Michael Godsey and Alex Fernandez have found teenagers to be a receptive podcast audience and have even experimented with asking students to make their own podcasts.

While audio has excited teachers of older students who can access the rich variety of content available for adults, teachers and parents of younger children are noticing there isn’t a ton of content made specifically for a younger audience. In an article written for The Atlantic, Stephanie Hayes investigates this hole in the podcast market. She was surprised to find that kids will pay attention to a full 15-20 minute podcast and learn from it. Hayes writes:

Get insights on key ways to protect students from technology-related dangers.

What is the best animation maker for kids? Here are a few programs that can help kids to make funny animated videos. Let’s have a look.

Along with countless other sobering repercussions, COVID-19 jeopardizes kids’ physical activity at a time when the emotional benefits that exercise provides are sorely needed. With school closures, suspension of team practices and the imperative to stay home and away from others, children and teenagers (and their agitated parents) will have to find other ways to keep moving. This is especially important now, as a global pandemic with potentially catastrophic repercussions has a way of igniting fear.

Do you know how to teach your kids about money? Think back to your childhood. Who taught you how to manage money? Who taught you to write a check? Who explained what compound interest is? You may have learned to write a check in Life Skills class in school or perhaps Mom and Dad showed you. And your parents may have even taught you to manage money. But I’m going to guess no one explained the more complicated stuff like compound interest. Heck, could you even explain it to your kids now? And yet, in many ways, our lives revolve

Playtime. Downtime. Family time.

According to Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, these three factors — or PDF as she calls them — protect kids against a host of negative outcomes, strengthen resilience, and bolster students’ mental wellness and academic engagement. 

Kids Invent Stuff is the YouTube channel where kids' ideas are made into real working inventions! We release a new video every Saturday, with a ne

Math teachers of older students sometimes struggle to get students to explain their thinking with evidence. It’s hard to get kids in the habit of talking about how they are thinking about a problem when they’ve had many years of instruction that focused on getting the “right answer.” That’s why educators are now trying to get students in the habit of explaining their thinking at a young age. The Teaching Channel captured kindergarten and first grade teachers pushing students to give evidence for their answers in situations where there are several ways to think about a problem.

Sketch Star is a fantastic place where you can create animations and drawings, see them online and and share them with a community of fellow artists!