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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.
In today's post he planned to continue with the theme of new technologies, As you have seen, It is lately becoming increasingly important in the blog.
But while I drank coffee this morning, I was reading the interview that 2010 Ken Robinson made for the Vanguardia.com and I felt the need to reflect on an issue that concerns me a lot.
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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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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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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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On previous occasions we talked about the importance of play during early childhood education. The game favors the development of the social skills, mental and physical, besides being a natural and spontaneous way of knowing the world for small.
As we saw in the previous post in this topic trying, There are many types of games that we can use for teaching-learning kids, one of these types are the corporal games, that are included in the songs, topic that will be discussed at today's post.
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Of all the issues of concern to parents with children in early childhood education, the topic of reading is probably the one that will bring them head. Usually this is because, unless children are motivated and continue with them the right strategies, It has difficulty reading a lot.
In this post I leave ten ideas or activities that you can make with your children for encourage and motivate reading.
Many already have seen the video of the speech I made last 30 in March I Congress of Educating Learning Childhood Education, even so, I wanted to prepare this post so that everyone may have a direct access from the blog to this video and, further, resumiros a little the main issues deal.
When I raised this challenge, I was told they wanted to speak English classroom in early childhood education, "but, What specifically?", I remember asking, "whatever you want, you can approach it as you think best ". With this information I started to work and decided that I wanted to do was to provide all the information that I would have liked to have had when I started as an English teacher in early childhood education.
Therefore, this paper is what I intend, basically, answer two questions: when and how, that is to say, When learning a second language beginning, in this case English, and how to do it.
Further, If you arrive at the end of the video (1 hour 16 minutes about), you can see in "scoop" the early stages of the educational app, Children´s Day Map, in whose development I have the privilege to participate as Pedagogical Director. If all goes as planned, The web version will be available late next week and the version for tablet and iPad in about three weeks.
Take this opportunity to tell you that if you have problems when reading with the kids in the house, do not fail to see the post on Sunday in which I will give you ten ideas of activities to stimulate interest in reading in smaller.
I hope you find useful information in every minute of this video.
Happy worker's day!
Kisses to all,
Cristina
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As many of you know, the past 30 of March, I had the privilege to participate as a speaker in the I Congress of Educating Learning Childhood Education, you can see the video Youtube, or if you prefer, check presentation Slideshare. One of the topics, for matter of time, I could not try was the theme of the bits of intelligence. While I talked about some games you can make with bits, You can see them in detail in the post, "The game. Key learning of the smaller ", we did not see how to make them and how they should go to the kids to really be effective and efficient, so I wanted to dedicate this post to this topic.
The theme of the bits of intelligence is a controversial topic that every teacher has spoken at some point in their career. Some assert categorically the effectiveness of this method, while others say it is not as effective as outlined.
En este post, My goal is that all know what are the bits of intelligence and you are capable of making them yourself. Further, I want to tell you first hand as has been my experience using them in the English classroom.
You know that one of the points that usually try my post is the use of new technologies in the teaching-learning process, and not just in the classroom, also at home.
There are many applications that help us work the direntes areas with small house and my, personally, I like to stress upon the applications for language learning, especially English. In fact, the last week I spoke of an app in which I have the pleasure to participate as an educational consultant.
Today I asked my friends Smile and Learn, of which I already talked in the past Education Congress Educating Children to Learn we explain firsthand what their stories and above all provide added value.
SMILE AND LEARN
I think no one better than them to tell you first hand all the characteristics of these stories.
I leave with them!
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