Idaho Falls, Idaho (CNN) -- Forget, for the moment, about computer whiz kids who download copyrighted music for free.
The FLY, for lack of a better description, is essentially a pen-based computer for kids that lets you write stuff down on paper and then interact with your drawings.
Maybe they buy a new computer for their kids who are about to go to college.
It will help our economy because middle-class folks are the folks who are most likely to actually spend this tax relief -- for a new computer for the kids or for maybe some home improvement.
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Now, not only is that bad in terms of people then not getting services and being less safe, or kids not -- having a larger class sizes or all those things, but obviously when those people lose their jobs they can't spend money buying a new car or buying clothes or buying the computer for their kids.
If you remember, that was when we created 23 million new jobs, we went from deficits to surplus, and folks at the top did well, too -- because when middle-class families have money in their pockets, they go out and buy that new car, or that new appliance, or that new computer for their kids, or they go out to a restaurant, or, heaven forbid, they take a vacation once in a while.
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Although Munoz describes getting e-mail permission from parents to enter their kids in computer game contests as "no big deal, " he fears that tech-savvy kids may find ways to skirt the guidelines.
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"I'll see a single mother who's made the effort to buy her kids a computer, " he says.
Otellini's people have scoffed at the super-cheap laptop as a toy, lacking too many real-world functions to actually help poor kids learn computer skills.
Christine Markatos Lowe, who designed Jake's room as part of the home's gut remodel, says a growing number of her clients are looking for spaces where they can casually keep an eye on their kids' computer activities.
All I had in front of me was my ball-and-chain computer, or chores and kids.
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One sure-fire hit: toys and computer CDs inside boxes of kids' cereal, like Froot Loops and Rice Krispies.
" Teachers typically allot class time for computer use when they require kids to get online, but Mr. Adams acknowledges that those students who have home Internet have the advantage of "unlimited time to pull in more information and fine-tune their digital projects.
One of the best things about Mindstorms is it teaches kids who are already computer literate how to program.
They all use game play as a way to make the logic of computer programming accessible and relevant to kids in their formative years.
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Mindstorms teaches kids who are already computer literate how to program.
Television and movies play to emotion (as do computer twitch games, which drag down kids' SAT scores).
One gadget is so popular it ranks with everyone from grade-school kids to CEOs: Apple Computer 's iPod music player.
After all, with low-end PCs costing just a few hundred dollars, why not buy the kids a full-fledged computer instead?
One gadget is so popular it ranks with everyone from grade-school kids to CEOs: Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod music player.
And I know that many of you here today are doing equally important work in your communities and your schools -- everything from holding camps for kids in need to teaching computer literacy skills, to finding new ways to conserve energy.
My wife and I have done everything we can to ingrain in our kids the ultimate importance of the computer world.
Some years ago, I paid a visit to a friend and found her elementary school-aged kids giggling in front of the computer screen.
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So at nearly any moment in a weekend, I can watch a half dozen kids gathering around AO on the computer like it was a warm campfire.
"We were all taught about talking to strangers by our parents but there are few people who are computer savvy enough to pass on advice to kids who use the internet, " said its spokesman.
The space includes large computer screens, so the parents can monitor the kids' screen time from afar.
White kids aged 3 to 12 and adults saw computer-generated, racially ambiguous faces.
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And the truth of the matter is even as overcrowded as schools may be, as poor the computer equipment may be, if you took a bunch of kids right now from China or India and you put them in these classrooms, from their perspective these would be unbelievable schools.
One on microbes relies on virtual reality to let kids energize the body's immune system by whacking computer-generated images of viruses attacking healthy tissue.
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