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Parenting expert Barbara Coloroso on the importance of modeling behaviours that will show children how to be caring, generous and helpful.
Parenting expert Barbara Coloroso on the importance of raising responsible, resourceful, resilient and compassionate children.
Derek Quenneville of Site 3 coLaboratory demonstrates how 3D printers work and what can kids can learn by using them.
TVO invited kids to the IdeaShaker Innovation Lab to test the new Leap Motion gesture controlled version of the TVOKids.com game Caterpillar Count.
Lane Merrifield, co-founder of Club Penguin, on why it was important for him to create a safe, parent-approved digital space for kids.
Lane Merrifield, co-founder of Club Penguin, on the process of creating online games for kids.
Lane Merrifield, co-founder of Club Penguin, on what kids can teach adults in game design and parenting.
Lane Merrifield, co-founder of Club Penguin and dad, offers digital literacy tips for parents and kids.
Lane Merrifield, co-founder of Club Penguin, on his shift from creating online games for kids to developing tools for teachers at FreshGrade.
Chaya Kulkarni, Director of Infant Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, on how parents can foster early literacy in preschoolers.
Chaya Kulkarni, Director of Infant Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, on how to use digital media with preschoolers.
Chaya Kulkarni, Director of Infant Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, offers tips on how to use digital media with preschoolers.
Chaya Kulkarni, Director of Infant Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, offers digital literacy tips on how parents can select educational online games and television programs for their preschooler.
Chaya Kulkarni, Director of Infant Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, offers tips on making physical activity fun for the family.
Chaya Kulkarni, Director of Infant Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, explains the importance of modeling good physical health in children.
Chaya Kulkarni, Director of Infant Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, explains how to help kids with disabilities and health concerns participate in physical activity.
Chaya Kulkarni, Director of Infant Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, offers tips on nutrition for your family.
Chaya Kulkarni, Director of Infant Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, explains how nutrition and physical activity affect your child's healthy development.
Chaya Kulkarni, Director of Infant Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, explains why parents should encourage the best physical health in their preschooler.
Laura Plant of Girls Learning Code on how learning code empowers girls to produce their own digital media.
Ashley Lewis of Girls Learning Code on what kids can learn when they produce content for the Internet.
Girls Learning Code is a Toronto-based organization that teaches girls computer coding in its technology workshops and camps.
Ashley Lewis of Girls Learning Code on why it's important to take risks and make mistakes when learning to code.
Laura Plant of Girls Learning Code on the potential of using the Internet as an educational tool.
Kathryn Barrett of Girls Learning Code on how mentoring can encourage both women and girls in the technology industry.
Ashley Lewis of Girls Learning Code on how parents can best support their kids.
Kathy Cassidy, a primary school teacher in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, on online safety, privacy, and etiquette.
Kathy Cassidy, a primary school teacher in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, on how parents can support their kids' digital literacy.
Kathy Cassidy, a primary school teacher in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, on how teachers can improve their own digital skills.
Kathy Cassidy, a primary school teacher in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, on digital literacy for grade one students.
Kathy Cassidy, a primary school teacher in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, on using blogs and Twitter with students in grades one and two.
Catherine Bruce of Trent University on how teachers can use digital technology in their classrooms.
Catherine Bruce of Trent University on the ways kids should use digital technology to become the problem solvers of the future.
Catherine Bruce of Trent University on how parents can effectively use digital technology with their kids.
Catherine Bruce of Trent University explains how digital literacy helps kids think critically and share ideas.
Catherine Bruce of Trent University on how digital technology like interactive whiteboards and iPads help kids learn math.
Catherine Bruce of Trent University on the skills kids need to be successful in the digital word.
Author Dustin Milligan talks about his book "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Lobster" which teaches kids about the right to freedom of expression.
Author Dustin Milligan talks about his book "Anne of Green Tomatoes" which teaches kids about the principles of safety and security.
Author Dustin Milligan talks about his book "The Case of the Missing Montreal Bagel" which teaches kids about the right to privacy.
Author Dustin Milligan talks about the 14 books in "The Charter for Children" series - each set in a different Canadian province or territory, highlighting a specific right or freedom.
Author Dustin Milligan on the importance of kids learning the basic principles of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in his book series "The Charter for Children".
Award-winning kid's book author Claire Eamer on how an ordinary lunch can be the starting point for kids to learn about history and science. She's the author of "The World In Your Lunch Box: The Wacky History and Weird Science of Everyday Foods", a book illustrated by Sa Boothroyd.
Claire Eamer, author of "The World in Your Lunch Box", on one of her favourite authors, Catherine Anthony Clark.
Claire Eamer, author of "The World in Your Lunch Box", recommends Elin Kelsey's "You Are Stardust" for young children.
Claire Eamer, author of "The World in Your Lunch Box", offers her tip to parents on how to foster a love of reading in their children.
Kathryn Meisner, Director of Hive Toronto at the Mozilla Foundation, on digital literacy and making to learn at Hive Pop-Up events.
The Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation Mark Surman on the importance of digital literacy for kids.
What do you look for in books for kids between the ages of two and five? OISE's Shelley Stagg Peterson and authors Ruth Ohi and Lana Button join Cheryl Jackson for a discussion on books for preschoolers.
Holland-Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital school opens the doors to its reverse integration classroom, where able-bodied children from the classroom join friends with special needs for Junior and Senior Kindergarten.
Chaya Kulkarni, Director, Infant Mental Health Promotion, Hospital for Sick Children describes the difference between bullying and aggression in pre-schoolers, what's normal and what parents can do to minimize aggression.