All my children are multilingual. My first born, now seven years old, speaks, reads, writes (all fluently) in three languages (Polish, English, and French). My second is not far behind, he can speak both Polish and English and is now in French immersion kindergarten learning French. My third is just learning to speak, but he knows both Polish and English.

This is the first time I ever hosted a blog carnival so please bear with me.

While reading the posts submitted to this month's Math Teachers at Play blog carnival, I was struck by how visualization is very important in teaching math, and just math in general. I was happy to read all the "visualization" posts since my recent interest is exactly in visual representations and how they help in learning, especially learning math.

The other day we went to the Zoo with my boys (a five year old and a three year old). In the car, we were talking about which animals the kids would really like to see, and what animals would be there, etc. I was pumped because the kids love animals and showing them an elephant in a book and in real life doesn't compare. In a book, there's no movement, no comparison in size with the surroundings, no texture.

In recent years, the Internet has played a much more prominent role in our daily lives than it has in the past. No longer confined to libraries and research labs, our access to the web and modern technology is now always within reach—whether through mobile phones, iPads and tablets, laptops, or sometimes all three at once. At first, the use of these technological resources in educational settings was widely considered to be a nuisance and a distraction.