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Jun 14

Children´s Day Map. A new way to learn the routines playing.

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photo credit: Henrik Late via photopin cc

A few months ago I wrote a post on how and why make an educational App. Today, App talking about in that article is a reality and can download Children´s Day Map one of the first applications dedicated exclusively to learn the routines in English while the kids play.

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Jun 14

Apps breaking barriers between analog and digital.

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photo credit: Matteo Bagnoli via photopin cc

There are many times when dealing with parents of my students issues related to the use of new technologies in the education of their children. Most often it agrees with the fact that new technologies are very attractive for small and generally tend to help your learning and entertainment. But it is also true that there are still skeptical parents to the use of new technologies to believe that the use of these will not let their children develop real skills related to the real world.

Today I want to address this issue because I believe that in this case we can not speak or white or black, but rather a gray scale we can take depending on our goals and interests.

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May 14

The 7 best parental control applications.

The 7 best parental control applications

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In post of the week last tried an issue of concern, and a lot, most parents who have children in age to use mobile devices.

Last Sunday we discussed what the parental control and what are the main features that you should look for in a parental control app if you want to be sure that your children made use of the device will be completely reliable and not access to inappropriate content.

In today's post I bring the 7 Best Apps, especially for Android, that you have available in the market to control mobile devices using the kids in the house.

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May 14

What is parental control and why it is essential devices for kids.

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Photo Credit: Ojang jerry via Compfight cc

There are many parents who ask me for advice when choosing the best application for their children, sometimes they want to know they can use to learn English (I will discuss this issue soon), in others it is to establish routines or to encourage reading. But in most cases not only care about quality App, for them the most important thing is usually the use their children make of the device and the options they may have to control this use.

A few months ago we discussed the issue of best tablet for kids house, and in this post I commented that most of these devices tend to bring parental control "serial", but, What if it is not enough for us or want to install other control device?

In today's post we will see the main keys, from my point of view, They are necessary when choosing the parental control for the device that kids use.

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Apr 14

Children´s Day Map. How and why to develop an educational app.

Children´s Day Map Cartel

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A month ago I was at home thinking how I was going to pose the paper What weeks later would I do at the I Congress of Early Childhood Education of Learning by Educating, and I realized that one of the things that I wanted to deal with during that hour and a half was how to work routines in the English classroom.

I thought about how I work routines in my classroom, I thought of songs, in games, rhyme, in routine calendars, I even thought about making a routine calendar and illustrating the process to share it with you. But I wanted to go even further and I said to myself: "Why not an app for children to work routines with the tablet or computer? Further, if made this type of app I will be able to use it in my classroom ”And… let's get to work!

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Nov 13

Tablets for children.

Now that the holidays are approaching, you may be thinking about buying a tablet to your hij @, if so, surely you will have already been researching on the Internet and you will have established that the tender and options in this regard is huge.

First, you ought to think about if you want a tablet for children "factory" or a tablet for adults adapted to the little kids. If you decide to bone along this second option, blogs have as pequetablet, where you will find all the information you need. These blogs also offer you guides who will explain in detail the technical specifications must be taken into account when making your purchase decision.

In case you have to decide for buying a tablet for children, here's a selection of some of the tablets that you can find on the market. Note that there is a tablet that is better than the other, it all depends on the child's age, the budget you have, and you use you please give.

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