Here are some of our favorite tech links from this week. We hope you enjoy them too.
16 essential skill kids learn from playing with Legos.
Offline Netflix, coming soon!
What happened when this person disconnected from social media for a month.
The end of an age: Blackberry discontinues their original cell phone keyboard.
Smart air conditioners? Yes!
Pop Sugar Moms shares the challenges of video-chatting with kids. Hilarious.
You can now edit your snaps and reshare them on Snapchat. So much for the “disappears in 15 seconds” thing.
A man tries to close a pop-up ad on his computer screen. You can probably guess what happens next.
Email tracking is here. Are you ready for it?
A text scanner we’d love to get our hands on.
The power of live streaming: Diamond Reynolds captures the aftermath when her boyfriend is shot by police.
I even found a way of teaching coding with Lego by building a superhero board game out of Lego bricks. That worked without using a computer but teaching and learning skills needed for creating a computer game or program. I guess these bricks will surprise me time and time again.
The U.S. is emphasizing more on STEM education. What’s your opinion about stem? what’s the real benefit of such toy(like lego)?
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We’ve written a ton about STEM education here -search our site or click here to learn more. STEM is really just a way to repackage so much of what kids already love learning. Down the road for them, it comprises the fastest growing employment sectors in the US, in part because it’s so broad — think about building, farming, medicine, technology, the financial industry, energy, transportation…that’s all STEM.
Hands-on experiences like LEGO specifically, are an effective way for kids to learn math and physics basics, but it’s more than that. See this post on 16 skills kids learn from building with LEGO: http://coolmompicks.com/blog/2016/07/07/skills-from-playing-legos/