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¿Qué es Facebook? ¿Y tuenti? ¿Por qué no entiendo nada de este mundo digital que a mi hijo domina? Estas y otras cuestiones, se resolverán en estas páginas escritas de modo divulgativo. Consciente de la urgencia por educar a los hijos "constantemente" conectados a la red, el autor escribe este libro con la intención de ayudar a los padres en esta tarea. Fruto de su propia experiencia como padre y periodista, en estas líneas se abordan de manera eficiente las claves para educar en la era digital.

Video games are a very useful tool that allows us to connect with the world of youth interests and that can help to attend to student diversity, to deploy multiple intelligences, to favour interdisciplinary work, etc. The book presents 30 Video games, many of them well-known and always of easy access both for the faculty as well as for the pupils. Each Video game is perfectly described, it includes its technical record and explains the didactic proposal in detail for its immediate use in the classroom.

Educating dual language learners (DLLs) and English learners (ELs) effectively is a national challenge with consequences both for individuals and for American society. Despite their linguistic, cognitive, and social potential, many ELsâ€"who account for more than 9 percent of enrollment in grades K-12 in U.S. schoolsâ€"are struggling to meet the requirements for academic success, and their prospects for success in postsecondary education and in the workforce are jeopardized as a result. Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures examines...

To educate in an integral manner implies not just attending to the logical and rational aspects of the mind, but also to intuition and creativity, to fantasy and irrational aspects. Basing on the more recent contributions on creativity, the authors of this book propose activities that develop intuition, imagination and fantasy; they defend creative use of language through metaphors and symbols; they teach how it is possible to develop the capacity "to think with images" among the pupils and to promote in them a playful attitude that, while at the same time extending the limits of freedom in...