Driving Kids – Free Online Educational Games for Kids

Game websites for kids, of course, are not the only place where young schoolchildren get together. But we’d still bet that there could hardly be more kid-attractive websites than ones with free games for kids. Although we would not at all mind if the situation were to change! And some wise people think that soon there will be more learning-oriented kids online… Games, step aside!

According to New Zealand’s Topnews, Bill Gates stated that “the self-motivated learner will be on the web. And there will be far less place-based [college] things…”

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When kids play, they have to play fair. Internet as a playful and useful tool for kids has to be a place of fair play! Or kids will never define who’s the true winner

Rules of using of the Internet by kids occur in many families, and the Obama’s is not an exception. Barack and Michelle Obama “have certain rules for their daughters when it comes to using the Internet,” we read in The Times of India.

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“Kids would never leave online games and fun websites and go play outside until I promise any award for this.” Oops, did we read your thoughts? If we did, you seem to be far from the truth! It’s appeared that kids are ready literally to award a person who want them to move!

Judge on your own: among best kids’ games and movies, musicians and actors, and other popular projects and celebrities who has won Nickelodeon’ Kids Choice Award in 2010, was also the U.S. First Lady.

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Success and education have much in common! Although it is not always a wide-known fact.

For example, many of us might remember Shakira’s stirring songs, but have you known that she’s loved by youngsters not only for her songs but for her contribution to the kids’ education? “She’s spending millions on schools in her home country and beyond,” was noticed in the weekend interview with her in The Wall Street Journal.

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If you see your kid staying online too long, remind him that Hannah Montana would never do like him!

As The Sun reports, Miley Cyrus, a 17-year old actress, regards the Internet as a thing which “wastes your life.”

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Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign has extended its web presence and initiated a new digital challenge, “Apps for Healthy Kids.” “White House Office of Science & Technology Policy analyst Kumar Garg announced the Apps for Healthy Kids game development challenge promoting healthy lifestyle changes in young adults,” Gamasutra.com informed us last week.

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As spring nears closer, American First Lady Michelle Obama has launched the Let’s Move! campaign. The campaign, as proclaimed on the Let’s Move! site, has a goal “to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation.”

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It seems to be a frequently asked question by parents and teachers everywhere… and the answer often seems to be that “learning is one of those things that has to be done face-to-face.” However, things are changing.

Kids today are driving to school with laptops, googling the web, chatting with friends on Skype, and writing e-mails to their parents… Kids are driving online! And teachers are following them – and not only on Twitter , but in using new opportunities to educate and to be educated.

How can children successfully learn using the Internet? How should teachers use the Internet to assist students and develop a personal approach for each of them? This question was brought up also in the 2010 annual letter from Bill Gates.

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