In today's issue of the Wall Street Journal, Geena Davis talks about why she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and how gender inequality on television and in movies has a powerful impact on kids. I couldn't find the following quote i...

When working with kids and trying to further their skills in things like visual literacy and digital media literacy, sometimes 2D these days just isn’t enough. This little Kickstarter project, Moviesandbox, has a modest budget and is promising some really excellent functionality incorporating the ability to receive data from outside ...

Peapod Labs is an unlikely meeting of minds and hearts that just might, unsuspectingly, become leaders in media literacy for preschoolers. Peapod Labs represents diversity. This small app development company is being developed by a Korean, a Venezuelan and an American. All are former corporate engineers who have found each ...

The MacArthur Foundation is supporting a HASTAC initative called “Reimaginging Learning” -  a project that is looking for great ideas that support children and young people to learn in the 21st century and develop the skills they need to grapple with the challenges this century presents them. The competition, which will ...

I introduced this online comic generator, Make Beliefs Comix, to GeekDads back in 2008. I thought it worth mentioning again because over the course of a couple of years the capacity of the site has grown to include more characters and environments to include in the strip comics your children ...

I have recently become a fan of Kathy Cassidy. She is a blogger and “teacher of a class of six-year-olds in Moose Jaw, Canada who are inviting the world into their classroom to help them learn.” What Kathy means by this is that she is working on developing her students ...

My two boys are in early primary school, and the more they play and share with me what they have discovered and developed in the SPORE world the more and more I think this is the type of game that should be used in primary and elementary schools. The realization ...