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It seems that your little ones will have yet another toy to play around with, this time around courtesy of the folks over at LeapFrog after they have announced the availability of the LeapPad2 Custom Edition tablet. Just what does the LeapPad2 Custom Edition tablet have that might entice your little ones? For starters, it would have everything that parents and kids both love in the award-winning LeapPad2, where among the firm favorites are a cool, tech-forward design that offers access to innovative leveled reading experiences. Not only that, you will also find that the LeapPad2 Custom Edition tablet will feature front as well as back cameras that does video recording on the fly, where it should fill up the 4GB of internal memory in a jiffy.

The LeapPad2 Custom Edition was specially designed to encourage creative play, where it will give little ones over 100 different ways to personalize their tablet thanks to the 10 included sticker skins as well as 11 digital wallpaper designs. Not only that, the LeapPad2 Custom Edition will also arrive with nine free apps (which are actually worth another $50).

What is the whole point of having great hardware when there is no suitable support in terms of its software? Fret not with this particular issue, as LeapFrog’s world-class learning library of approximately 1,000 life-changing content experiences have been designed or approved by LeapFrog’s learning experts, and are made available on the new LeapPad2 Custom Edition.

LeapFrog’s robust learning library would be made up of a combination of LeapFrog’s top-quality educational entertainment and engaging conten, where one ought to be able to find the biggest names in children’s entertainment. In fact, this unique learning library has been built against a proprietary curriculum of 2,600 skills across math, reading, science, and creativity, among others, so that kids will be able to enjoy unique, world class learning content that will comprise of personalized profile-based curriculum starting points, innovative hints and prompts, and milestones which will offer little ones the most appropriate and engaging experiences. The LeapPad2 Custom Edition has an asking price of $69.99, where apps can be downloaded from $5 and above.

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It’s time to rethink the way our children learn. It’s all a bit overwhelming, attempting to restructure the age-old classroom model, particularly in a system as bogged down in bureaucratic red tape as education. This month, however, we packed up our things and toured the country to find out how educational institutions are adopting new models to help reinvent the learning process — rather than sitting idly by, waiting for the system to change around them. Naturally, technology is playing a huge role in that shift, moving from models of teaching to models of learning, where students can explore, express themselves and learn at their own speed.

We kick things off in Chicago, where Jackie Moore, a former systems programmer, is teaching inner city students how to build robots in a shopping mall basement at LevelUP. Next up, we head Miami and California, to see how technologies like the iPad, Google Chromebook and One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptop are being implemented in three schools, including interviews with educators, students, OLPC CEO Rodrigo Halaby and Google director of product management, Rajen Sheth. We’ll also talk to component retailers SparkFun and Adafruit about the initiatives those companies have implemented to help kids learn electronics at an early age, and then we sit down with American Museum of Natural History president, Ellen Futter, to discuss the ways the New York City institution is redefining itself for the 21st century.

We’ve also got an interview with Ali Partovi, a serial entrepreneur, who is working to make computer science an essential part of the elementary-level STEM program, through Code.org. Richard Culatta, the acting director of the US Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology discusses how devices can help target the learning process for individual students and LeapFrog CEO John Barbour tells us how his company is rethinking the educational toy. All that plus prognostications from John Roderick and some really sweet moose dioramas can be yours to enjoy after the break.

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LeapFrog’s latest tablet just couldn’t wait to show off for the camera, making its on-screen debut over at the FCC’s site a few weeks back. The kid-friendly tech company was finally ready to show the thing off for real this week, almost exactly a year after letting us take a look at the previous-generation device. The slate, naturally, maintains the kid-friendly software and rugged design that have become customary across LeapFrog’s hardware offerings, while adding enough new features to let the company confidently refer to the LeapPad Ultra as “the ultimate kids learning tablet.” Though they might be just a tad biased when it comes to such overarching statements.

The Ultra’s got a 7-inch, 1,024 x 600 touchscreen display that works with an stylus to help kids learn to write with something other than their fingers (making it not too unlike the LeapReader in that respect). There are front- and rear-facing cameras for its built-in imaging programs and 8GB of storage for downloading some of the 800-plus LeapFrog-approved apps downloadable from the company’s App Center (which wasn’t ready to demo when we looked at the hardware). The choices include proprietary apps and selections from partners like Pixar and Sesame Street. The tablet’s got all kinds of parental protection, including secure WiFi and a four-digit code for updating. And while there’s an included chat app (Pet Chat), communication is limited to other LeapPads, using a limited number of canned responses.

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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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