Internet Search Engines for Kids

Posted by Celia Walter | 20 Sep, 2011
This is a nice collection of search resources designed for children. From the site itself: "Here you will find search forms for the major Internet search engines for kids.Below these are Internet search engine links, links to web guides for kids, some specialized search engine forms and specialized search engine links of interest to kids.At the bottom there are links to family friendly or general WWW filtered search engines and links to more pages like this."

It's a nice resource, although I'm not sure how up to date it is. I checked out the links and all the ones that I tried were fine except for the Encarta site, which has been gone for a long time now. Otherwise, good stuff - thanks to Hazel for finding it and alerting me to it.

From Phil Bradley's weblog

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A Kite’s Flight: William Gumede's first children’s book

Posted by Celia Walter | 2 Jun, 2011

In an unexpected and bold move, William Guimede has published his first children’s book, A Kite’s Flight.

Gumede is the author of the bestselling book Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC (2005) as well as Poverty Of Ideas (with Leslie Dikeni, 2009). He was also previously Deputy Editor of the Sowetan, South Africa’s largest national daily newspaper.

From Polity.org.za Video clip of interview with the author

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Great Web Sites For Kids, a directory from the American Library Association.

Posted by Celia Walter | 22 Dec, 2010

 

http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm

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Unreliability of internet child health advice

Posted by Celia Walter | 16 Apr, 2010

A team at the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust have shown that using Google to seek advice on common medical issues in children can lead to incorrect information. Paul Scullard and colleagues reported in the April issue of Archives of Disease in Childhood that Googling for information on such topics as autism and MMR vaccine, the sleeping position of a baby, what action to take with a baby producing green vomit, and breast feeding with mastitis or HIV, gave unreliable results. Of the 500 websites searched, 39% gave the correct answer, 11% were incorrect, and 49% didn’t answer the question. Government sites such as NHS Direct or NHS Choices gave uniformly accurate information. The story was also carried by BBC Health News... [more]

From Intute blog: Medicine

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OLPC unveils slimline tablet PC

Posted by Celia Walter | 24 Dec, 2009

The group [One Laptop per Child] behind the $100 laptop has revealed the design for its latest computer aimed at connecting children in the developing world.

The XO-3, as it is known, is a slim-line touchscreen tablet PC.

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) said it would be "available in 2012" and would cost "well below $100".

In Pictures: Designing the OLPC

 Link to slide show:

From BBC News

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Children in virtual worlds: conference web site

Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Jul, 2008
Children in virtual worlds
'Children in Virtual Worlds' is the website of a joint conference held by the BBC, the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the University of Westminster. The one-day conference was held in May 2008, in a climate of increasing moral panic on the topic by media commentators and pressure groups. The conference proceedings are being placed online, and at mid July 2008 the following academic papers are available: 'New research on virtual worlds for children'; 'Children in virtual worlds: legal issues'; 'Researching virtual worlds: let's talk about ethics'; 'Learning from online worlds: teaching in Second Life'; 'Immersion and play in virtual and actual places'; and a report on the BBC's 'Adventure Rock' online world (formerly CBBC World). Most of these papers are in PDF form, but there is also some video from the conference. The website also contains full details of the conference programme. The papers this website contains will be useful for those researching new forms of interactive media, the changing media consumption of young childhood in the UK, and also the knowledges and attitudes about virtual worlds that young people may bring with them in the near-future when they enter higher education. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.childreninvirtualworlds.org.uk/

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Growing up online. PBS Frontline programme

Posted by Celia Walter | 7 Feb, 2008

To watch the programme online go to:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

 

  

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Keeping Children Safe Online: Cyber security tip

Posted by Celia Walter | 24 Jan, 2008

Cyber Security Tip ST05-002: Keeping Children Safe Online
Source: US-CERT

Children present unique security risks when they use a computer—not only do you have to keep them safe, you have to protect the data on your computer. By taking some simple steps, you can dramatically reduce the threats.

Docuticker

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Forbidden Fruit: The censorship of literature and information for young people

Posted by Celia Walter | 20 Oct, 2007
The conference will focus on the censorship of print, electronic and other literary and information resources for young people.
19 to 20 June 2008
Southport, UK, North West England, United Kingdom

Website: http://forbiddenfruitconference.wetpaint.com/
Contact name: Sarah McNicol
Organized by: Evidence Base
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 7 January 2008

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