“The Humble Indie Bundle: Pay-What-You-Want for Games and Help EFF!” plus 2 more |
- The Humble Indie Bundle: Pay-What-You-Want for Games and Help EFF!
- Kids need to keep learning over the summer, but make it fun
- Are the kids getting lazier? (Part 2)
| The Humble Indie Bundle: Pay-What-You-Want for Games and Help EFF! Posted: 05 May 2010 09:15 AM PDT Announcement by Aaron Jue Wolfire Games is running an innovative pay-what-you-want promotion for five great indie video games with some proceeds benefiting EFF! Normally the five games would be valued at $80, but from now until Tuesday, 5/11, you can pay what you want for the entire game bundle including:
The games are DRM-free and work with Mac, Windows, and Linux. The coolest part is that you can choose how to divvy up your payment between the game developers, Child's Play charity for kids, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation! Have fun, feel good, and don't forget drop some change in the EFF bucket. But wait! There's more! EFF will offer a complimentary Pioneer Membership with our top-shelf swag to the first 30 people to donate $100 or more (divided in any manner you choose) for the bundle! Check out the Humble Indie Bundle site for all the details (in both print and convenient video rap form). We at EFF would like to offer our heartfelt thanks to Wolfire for including us, and cheers to all of the developers for their generosity and creativity. Now go get your bundle! Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Kids need to keep learning over the summer, but make it fun Posted: 06 May 2010 01:34 AM PDT When the last school bell rings and summer begins, most kids are excited to relax and not "learn" anything until the next school year. The problem is that when children don't keep their minds stimulated over the summer it can result in a loss of material they already learned. But learning doesn't have to be boring, it can actually be fun. Learning includes not only basic academics, but being stimulated by play, social interaction and doing things away from a desk. Anytime a child is challenged and moves to the next level of expertise he or she is learning. Kids of all ages should do something challenging, while trying to stay on a routine schedule throughout the summer break. The younger the child, the more important it is to have consistency through a transition.
Summer camps are a great source of stimulation whether they are general camps, camps targeted toward an interest such as sports or band, or academic-based camps. Camps are good for team building and social interaction. Even camps that are targeted to a specific set of children, such as kids with cancer or a developmental disability, are available and provide great opportunities to learn new skills. Camps, however, can be expensive and out of reach for some. In that case, families need to find their comfort level and include fun time, social interaction and down time in daily routines. We need to ensure we are not going backward during the summer. Teenagers who feel they have outgrown camp should consider becoming a camp counselor or taking a summer job in which they will learn leadership skills and how to assist others. Volunteering also is an option for the teenage crowd and can open eyes at many levels. Staying mentally stimulated doesn't have to be restricted to reading books. Parents should be realistic about what kids will do and what is available financially. The point is to do something positive in the summer and to challenge children to advance themselves. Dr. Duru Sakhrani is the medical director for child and adolescent inpatient psychiatry at St. John's Mercy Children's Hospital. Visit stjohnsmercychildrenshospital.org. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Are the kids getting lazier? (Part 2) Posted: 05 May 2010 08:40 PM PDT If only our children know what pains our forefathers went through to get a proper education even! My own Dad, was a working student. They weren't rich but not poor either. They were average but my grandparents had high hopes for their 12 kids and instilled that in their kids' minds. My Dad worked as a messenger while in school. Unfortunately, those stories have been lost. Although this may sound awful, I am grateful for this economic downturn. I believe this may be an eye opener to "going back to basics" so to speak. I think people are starting to realize how easy they have it. I have faith that because of the worldwide downslope people will start being more personal and start investing in their "live" neighborhoods, communities and their families, more than they spend time tending to their herds or plants in Farmville or hiring more mobsters to collect money in Mafia Wars ( Facebook applications). I asked a bunch of people why they think kids are getting lazier and here's what they said: Jessica, 39, Online English Teacher – I was born in the U.S. And my own childhood saw this truth. I didn't have a car seat past three, we didn't have caller ID or call waiting. I wrote my thesis with a typewriter, never heard of an MP3 back then, why I didn't even have a CD player in my house until I was 6, before then we listened to records, we only got one when a neighbor gave us a CD and we had nothing to listen to it with. I had a Walkman until I was 14. Kids nowadays just don't know we didn't have it so lucky. Jason, 42, Account Manager – Kids are getting lazier because it concerns physical activity, but not otherwise. So have their parents. I think the reason is that this generation of teens have been raised with so many technological ways to entertain themselves (internet, texting, video games etc.) that they have never acquired the habit of doing physical things for fun. Not much time to ride bikes, play "patintero" or "tumbang preso," or frisbee, etc when one is hanging out in the house watching the big screen while texting and posting on Facebook or Twitter. So how lazy are our kids getting? Lemme give you a more classic example. I've noticed some things have become more annoying. Every time I get a text message or I chat with someone younger than me I get the dumbed down version of English writing. Instead of getting a normal sentence I get this sort of chat code or bastardized language. Years ago when I used to go online and chatted to while away time and multitasked, I was used to chat acronyms like LOL, OMFG, and BRB, etc. But now, I see friggin' numbers interspersed with letters being used to shorten whole sentences! I hate reading text messages that seem worst than hieroglyphics! Thus the emergence of this newly-coined word "jejemon." Brrrrrrrrrrr. Gives me the shivers! Why if you can't write to me in a complete sentence and make sense than don't send me anything at all. Thank God my Keoni texts in complete sentences, correctly spelled at 8 years old! Spending 10 minutes out of my life to decode what ever you've written is not worth my time. We owe it to our kids to let them know that too much of anything is venomous. Too much convenience or being complacent will breed indolence. We can't make them rely solely on technology to do things for them, instead, they should know that the ticket to success has "hard work" attached to it. Technology should still be personal. Lemme hear from yah! techiemommy@gmail.com Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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