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The educational benefits of technology for homeschooling

Technology is already proving essential in the classroom. Yet the number of home-schooled children in the UK has risen by 41% over the last three years alone – can introducing technology also be of benefit in non-classroom situations? Providing curriculum support One of the most important ways that technology supports homeschooling is access to curriculum support. This gives parents the...

The effects of music on expression and education

From their first garbled versions of nursery rhymes to the teenage pop idols, children embrace and love music in all its form. With good reason, pregnant mothers are even encouraged to play soothing music to their unborn child. Since the beginning of time, humans have created music. Its various forms can soothe, inspire and invigorate, as well as create feelings of nostalgia and joy. According...

How have educational products evolved over time?

The classroom has rapidly changed in just a generation. Most parents would struggle to recognise the modern classroom and beyond that grandparents would suspect that they had been transported to an alien universe. Every teacher has faced a myriad of innovations during their time in a bid to bring classrooms into the present day and make learning more effective and more fun. Let’s take a...

Product Focus: Niños 10 Inch Explore Tablet

Welcome to another Product Focus, where we take a close look at one of our Niños products and show how it could be really helpful for the education of your children. This week, we focus on the 10-inch Explore tablet, which is the largest tablet in the Explore range. The Explore tablet is a stylish and effective piece of hardware, and would be useful for kids of secondary school age and even...

Three tips for bringing up digital natives

Kids today have to navigate a very different technological landscape to those of previous generations. ‘Digital natives’, as those who were born after the technology boom are known, are now starting to come of age, and we are starting to understand the effects that technology has on those for whom it is second nature. We often hear scare stories on the news about a decline in our kids’...