Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Computer science books for kids

Avril really likes Computational Fairy Tales and this reminded me of other books that may be of interest although I haven't seen them myself yet:

Do you know any other good books that teach kids programming?

Update: I just saw this post with more interesting books: Teach kids programming (A collection of resources).

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Books about multilingualism

I recently wrote a review of a book about multilingualism (bilingualism to be exact). It's the second book I read about the subject since it's of big personal interest to me.  I've also read a few articles and followed at least one online discussion about it.  Here's what I believe now about all the information that's available:

  • Do not read any books about bilingualism unless you have to.  The information is unlikely to change much about your attitudes towards multilingualism and reading them can be annoying because they read like propaganda materials.
  • If you do want to read something, the book I've just read (A Parents' & Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism) is not too bad in spite of the fact that my review contains a few criticisms.