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Playful learning is more than fun and games
BLOGS / KID INSIGHT / Out of the SandboxClaire Green, president of Parents’ Choice Foundation and co-founder of Sandbox Summit, spends more time than most playing with kids’ media. Here’s her playbook on what it takes to make a great educational app. It’s a lesson we should all learn.
Only 24% of children’s apps provide privacy policy information
INTERACTIVE / KID INSIGHTAs kids’ mobile usage continues to soar and the new COPPA laws prepare to launch, it’s inevitable that conversations surrounding privacy will become more commonplace. So it’s timely that a new study conducted by Kids Best iPad Apps has found that only 24% of children’s apps include a link to a privacy policy.
Study: 25% of US teens go online via their phones
INTERACTIVE / KID INSIGHTA larger number of American teens are getting their hands on smartphones and in turn are increasingly heading online via their mobile devices rather than using desktop or laptop computers. The findings come from the most recent Teens and Technology survey from Pew Research Center.
PBS Kids puts emphasis on math in new awareness effort
INTERACTIVE / KID INSIGHT / TVAs a crop of new math-based series become available to young kids, PBS Kids has launched It All Adds Up, an awareness effort that will support the development of early math and literacy skills in children ages two to eight from low-income families. Among the set of free resources is a new app and online game property.


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