Web Coolness: Big Instagram news, the ultimate Minecraft holiday gift, our new favorite YouTube channel for kids
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. We’ve got lots of Minecraft gift ideas for kids you can still get before the holidays, like this cool shirt (above), or what we think might be...
Super cool, geeky holiday ornaments for trees that could benefit from chemistry or a sine curve.
Our family Christmas tree is never going to be pictured in a design magazine, and that’s not just because I let the kids do the decorating. I like to let my family’s personality shine through our ornaments, which means all of those kid-created ornaments...
Tiggly Math: One of the best preschool tech toys of the year.
Not every toy we buy our kids has to have some sort of “educational component” to it, though I love when I find a great toy that so brilliantly combines play with learning. Such is the case with Tiggly whose Tiggly Shapes was a favorite toy for us in 2013....
5 of our favorite tech Pinterest pins
Are you obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us! Then check out these 5 tech pins, plus lots more from our site and around the web. 1. We love finding awesome math apps for kids that are fun too. 2. Hide all those unsightly power strips before you start your...
Math apps for kids that are fun and focused on learning? Goes in the plus column in our ledger.
We’re always on the lookout for the best math apps for kids that put some fun in the fundamentals, especially for the 3- to 7-year-old crowd. Getting kids excited and interested in math from an early age just makes good sense — good number sense, to be...
STEM education: 7 awesome ways to get girls excited, from apps to clubs to cool websites
I feel pretty lucky to have a couple of daughters who dig STEM — that’s science, technology, engineering and math, in case you’ve seen the acronym floating around. While there are so many exciting developments in the last few years designed to get...
Twelve a Dozen math app: Possibly more fun than those other apps on your iPad
I’m super picky where it comes to educational math apps, and I rely on my kids’ opinions . They’ll try anything, but it takes an extra special app to hold their interest. Twelve a Dozen is one of those exceptional math apps for iPad that earns an A+....
Web Coolness: How to teach math with LEGO, Instagram video ads are here, and the scary Apple Pay shutout.
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. We’re not sure what we love more about this dad: the geeky DIY Halloween costume or that he’s wearing the baby in a Bjorn. This new Honda...
5 of our favorite tech Pinterest pins
Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us! Then check out these 5 pins plus lots more of our own tech picks and coolness from around the web. 1. This hilarious iPhone 6 case cracks us up every time, because yeah, we get it. (And it’s not even the holidays...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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