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Katie Mah was your average Asian American kid living an average life, going to an average school, getting average grades in an average town in the dull suburbs of Southern California. Katie was subjected to all kinds of average unpleasant experiences of growing up. On a fateful 6th grade science camp trip to the mountains, her average life was so unbearable, she ran away and landed herself into a lot of trouble, not on Earth, but on Alpha Centauri. There she befriends the centaurs who desperately need her help.
The second part of the Elemental Horses series dives deeper as each horse interacts with the children that come to them. Every horse is different as is every child is different. What happens between them is what this book is about. It is a fantasy/science fiction children's story & art book that introduces elements of science as well as Chinese language and culture and explores the imaginations of young people.
Idioms are sayings particular to a language and culture. They are baffling to language learners of all ages as they are encountered in casual conversations, read in books, heard from radio, television, and film. Idioms are everywhere. Enjoy these 32 cartoons that were drawn, and colored by pencil, from an ever growing list collected over the course of a year. May interesting ideas and conversations grow from looking at this book.
The family of magical carousel creatures has gotten bigger as an entirely new carousel team has made itself known. What can they do? What are they going to teach us? Come and meet them to find out. This is the fourth book in The Elemental Horses series. It introduces a whole new set of 12 animals that have real Chinese words for their names. The two carousels combine their powers as they take on the big challenges facing our world with courage and intelligence.
The carousel is threatened by the world it was meant to help. Can the modern world be trusted with the secrets the horses protect? This is the third book in the series about art, society, environmental issues and Chinese language and culture.
Twelve special horses are waiting for riders to share a special journey with on the Elemental Horses Carousel. It was a toy, a teaching device and a tool for dire times. It is a fantasy/science fiction children's story & art book that introduces elements of science as well as Chinese language and culture.
Idioms are sayings particular to a language and culture. They are baffling to language learners of all ages as they are encountered in casual conversations, read in books, heard from radio, television, and film. Idioms are everywhere. Enjoy these 32 cartoons that were drawn, and colored by pencil, from an ever growing list collected over the course of a year. May interesting ideas and conversations grow from looking at this book.
A leader in educational technology separates truth from hype, explaining what tech can—and can’t—do to transform our classrooms. Proponents of large-scale learning have boldly promised that technology can disrupt traditional approaches to schooling, radically accelerating learning and democratizing education. Much-publicized experiments, often underwritten by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, have been launched at elite universities and in elementary schools in the poorest neighborhoods. Such was the excitement that, in 2012, the New York Times declared the “year of the MOOC.” Less than a decade later, that pronouncement seems premature. In Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can...