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In recent months there has been pressure from the community that question the ways in which homework aggravates social inequalities due to the difference between students who rely on family support that is not always available. In some cases, an overabundance of homework leaves children without a childhood. This reflection on the usefulness of homework serves as an invitation to rethink what it means today to educate, both inside and outside the classroom.

Todos los viernes un niño y su padre salen temprano de casa, andan por las calles de la ciudad viendo muchas cosas y gente, y desayunan en un restaurante.

Video games are a very useful tool that allows us to connect with the world of youth interests and that can help to attend to student diversity, to deploy multiple intelligences, to favour interdisciplinary work, etc. The book presents 30 Video games, many of them well-known and always of easy access both for the faculty as well as for the pupils. Each Video game is perfectly described, it includes its technical record and explains the didactic proposal in detail for its immediate use in the classroom.

La historia de la ciencia es rica en épocas esplendorosas. Una de ellas corresponde a los siglos XIX y XX. Los descubrimientos y desarrollos que se realizaron entonces en la física, la química, la matemática, las ciencias naturales, la biología y la medicina conmovieron el mundo, cambiándolo radicalmente. Fue entonces, en las centurias de los Darwin, Lyell, Mendel, Faraday, Maxwell, Pasteur, Koch, Riemann, Cajal, Planck, Einstein, Gödel, Turing, Heisenberg, Watson y Crick cuando la ciencia se profesionalizó y penetró en las estructuras del poder político, económico, militar y...