Geek Cinema Speaks: Click Clack
Click Clack is a perfect example of why I love short films and why I love animation. On the surface, it’s a cute story about a boy and his friends, the robots. But watch closely enough, and you may...
View ArticleGeek School: Smarter by Design
I’ve been a geek all my life, but I hated school. Until college, I learned more watching PBS and maxing out my youth library card every week than I ever did in a classroom. I’m worried that my son will...
View ArticleStrange Findings from Google’s New Ngram Tool. Procrastinators, Take Note.
There’s an Ngram Challenge at the end of this post, so read to the end, people! (Or skip to the end, what do I care? I’m not proud.) Surely you’ve seen it, GeekMoms: the new Google tool called Ngram...
View ArticleLanguage Learning Through Earworms? Ja!
Even if you’ve never heard the term “earworm,” you’ve had one. You know — one of those songs or tunes or fragments of melody that gets stuck in your head for days on end, so that you find yourself...
View ArticleGet Your Tongue Out Of Whack
Ever bored or need a break from screen time? Then it’s time to play with your tongue! That sounds gross, but bear with me: I’m talking about tongue twisters. Of course, when you give your tongue a...
View Article… and Sometimes Y
Twenty six letters in the alphabet. One that can be both a vowel and a consonant. And someone with the brilliance to sort it all out on a T-shirt with a Venn diagram. The shirt from Snorgtees.com comes...
View ArticleDude, Listen To Your Buds
In our rapidly advancing tech world, children’s usage of iPods and MP3 players is increasing every day. In fact, ownership of these types of listening devices among children has increased from 18% to...
View ArticleThe Value of the National Spelling Bee in the Age of Spell Check and...
Yesterday 275 kids gathered in Washington, DC, to take a spelling test. Today, they’ll start spelling in the preliminary rounds until just 50 spellers move on to the semifinals of the National Spelling...
View ArticleWinners and Losers at the National Spelling Bee: How Much Pressure Is Too Much?
I was eight when I had my first spelling success. A tiny third-grader, I came in third place at my school spelling bee. I had beaten almost all of the big kids. I missed I-R-R-A-D-I-A-T-E, but I went...
View ArticleGeekMom Talk Like a Pirate Day!: Change Ye Olde Facebook to Pirate Tongue
Avast there! As ye know, today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, but was ye also aware that Facebook have a pirate tongue option in ye olde language option list? Nay? Then follow this here map...
View ArticleMuse of Nerds: Science News Editor, Tom Siegfried
2012 will be a fantastic year for science, education, and creativity. I know this because I read Science News with articles that show me how intelligent and imaginative people are in the scientific...
View ArticleThe Strange Story of Sally-Anne Lambert’s Hlinget Word Encyclopedia
Let me save you a quick “let me google that” trip. Hlinget is not a variant dialect of Klingon, or Elvish, or any other fictional language. Even if you do a quick search, you’ll still have to dig a...
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3 Elles : 3 Great Women, 3 Great Apps
An interview with the three founders of 3 Elles, creators of wonderful apps for children like "Letter Sounds" and "Numberland." The post 3 Elles : 3 Great Women, 3 Great Apps appeared first on GeekMom.
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Even In Utero, Babies Know Native Language
New research indicates babies learn their native language, even while in utero. The post Even In Utero, Babies Know Native Language appeared first on GeekMom.
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