Product Description: The iPad has become an iconic device, and in many ways it's an ideal educational tool for children: user-friendly, compact, interactive, powerful, and even stylish!It is now widely used in schools, but for a parent, the idea of your child using an iPad can be a daunting one: how do you know what they're using it for, what are they looking at on the web, how and who are they communicating with online?A Parent's Guide to the iPad in easy steps, now in its third edition, aims to put your mind at ease...read more

As children’s digital lives become more relevant to schools and educators, the question of play and learning is being revisited in new and interesting ways. Children’s Virtual Play Worlds: Culture, Learning, and Participation provides a more reasoned account of children’s play engagements in virtual worlds through a number of scholarly perspectives, exploring key concerns and issues which have come to the forefront. The global nature of the research in this edited volume embraces many different areas of study from school based research, sociology, cultural studies, psychology, to contract law showing how children’s play and learning in virtual spaces has great potential and possibilities.

Product Description: This bold, forward-thinking text offers a clear rationale for the development of curricula and pedagogy that will reflect young people’s in-school and out-of-school popular culture practices. By providing a sound theoretical framework and addressing popular culture and new technologies in the context of literacy teacher education, this book marks a significant step forward in literacy teaching and learning...read more

Product Description: Teachers of young children are the technology gatekeepers in childcare programs. They are vital to the appropriate use of technology, yet little is documented concerning training and understanding of teachers role in classrooms.Technology and Young Children: Bridging the Communication-Generation Gap presents the view that beliefs, history, research, and policy are essential to changing the educational system with technology...read more

Product Description: The book for teens that every parent should read!   You have been immersed in the technology since preschool. You download music, Google your homework, and constantly IM your friends. You check your email before dinner, tweak your MySpace page, and bypass that hardcopy diary for your own 31337 space in the blogosphere...read more

Product Description: A guide for parents on the latest kid craze. Wildly popular, Webkinz(r) are the must-have toy for every five- to twelve- year old. Presented in a highly intuitive, handbook-style organization, here is the first guide on this sought after stuffed animal...read more