Archive for December, 2009
It’s Holiday Season, But the Homework Still Flows
I feel like the Grinch mentioning this around the holidays, but it’s a fact. Kids get homework even as the holidays approach. The rule of thumb is that kids get 20 minutes of homework per grade. So by junior high school you’re looking at between 2-3 hours of homework each evening–and that’s after a long [...]
Posted: December 9th, 2009 under Your Digital Kids, education, holidays, tech skills, time management, young children and Internet.
Tags: discovery, homework, tutor, wikipedia, youtube
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CES 2010: Which Will Be the Last Gadget Standing?
The Last Gadget Standing was the very first event that I produced for CES. That was nine years ago. The premise of the contest hasn’t changed. At CES you’ll see hundreds of new product introductions. But, by the time the year’s out, a healthy chunk of them are never to be heard from again.
Last Gadget [...]
Posted: December 1st, 2009 under boomers, creativity and play.
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