If I let them, my kids would live on the computer. I don’t think it’s a good place to live. Every computer must have a monitor — a really, really good one. Otherwise, the computer is useless. What ...

Robert Szweda wants to give families that can’t afford a computer for their children the opportunity to own one. Szweda and Cliff Peterson, director and co-director of Computers for Kids in Baraboo, ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Computer Literacy is the key to the future for today's children, but not all of our young people have access to a computer or helpful learning programs. Robert Toporek, founder ...

In 1997 community volunteers took a leap of faith and founded Computers For Children, (CFC) a nonprofit organization grounded in the principle to make technology more accessible to children who were ...

Debate is raging over whether computers and Internet access are harmful or beneficial to children's education, with two surveys providing contradictory results. Telstra BigPond yesterday published a ...

Some babies enjoy banging on pots and pans. Jessie Traver prefers banging on a keyboard. Any time her parents say, "let's play on the computer," Jessie, 18 months, squeals and toddles toward the PC.

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — By Fourth of July, children are deep into summer break. However, a break from school doesn't mean parents can relax their vigilance on what their children are doing and who ...

There’s an unspoken assumption that giving poor and disadvantaged kids computers will help them academically. That’s why there are so many organizations doling out computers and Internet access for ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — The pandemic and virtual learning have shined a light on our country's growing technology gap. In this Zevely Zone, I went to Miramar to learn how donating an unused ...

As the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) continued in Tunis last night, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan unveiled a prototype of a cheap and rugged $100 laptop for children, as ...

One of the media's favorite cliches and a recurrent "urban legend" is that computer games are destroying our children's intelligence. The assumption, based primarily on techno-phobia and nostalgic dis ...

Most parents spend a lot of time worrying about protecting kids from online predators. But what about protecting the family computer from kids who download games or ringtones that disguise viruses or ...