Selling point: Children Today is offered with Oxford Insight. Oxford Insight pairs best-in-class OUP content with curated media resources, activities, and gradable assessment, in a guided learning environment that delivers performance analytics, drives student engagement, and improves student outcomes.Selling point: The content follows theories with explanations of "why" they are useful and how they can be immediately applied to children, putting theories into action.Selling point: Every chapter integrates new research on the influence of digital devices, social media, and the online environment.Selling point: Reminds students of the big picture, reinforcing that child development takes place within a vast environment that has many facets and is influenced by parents'' social economic status, families'' culture, values, race/ethnicity, etc.Selling point: Teaches milestones in context. To empower readers to understand how to make productive use of milestones, the milestone table has a separate list of possible signs of delay as well as suggestions to help children develop appropriate skills for each age.Selling point: Thoughtfully designed activities encourage students to take the perspective of parents, caregivers, and pediatric health professionals to help them imagine what it''s like to raise a child in the modern world.

Selling point: Artfully weaves theory and application together to make the study of child development meaningful for students who will go on to work with children in various roles.Selling point: Interactive Case Studies - The children featured in the opening and closing scenarios are also the stars of a comprehensive concept review that can be assigned within Oxford Insight. Students can connect theories to practice through drag-and-drop, matching, and multiple-choice questions, as well as reflect upon their choices and the impact they might have on children via short writing assignments.Selling point: Introductory and Chapter Closing Scenarios - Topics central to each chapter are introduced in an opening scenario focusing on the real-life experience of one or more children. The closing scenario shows how their situation has changed over time and offers the reader a glimpse into the future. Every chapter picks up a thread from these scenarios and offers a comprehensive interactive assignment for students called Interactive Case Studies.Selling point: What''s It Like features - Children and their caregivers or the professionals involved in their lives describe their experiences with a variety of circumstances, challenges, and medical conditions. Examples include growing up with dyslexia, blindness, or dealing with the stress of timed tests.

The discussion positions the child''s perspective alongside that of at least one involved adult.Selling point: Author-narrated Section Opening Videos provide an overview of each developmental stage as outlined in the text.Selling point: Research Applied videos feature leading researchers and how their research is applied to the real world, making a difference to children every day. These videos expand upon discussions in text and offer assignable quizzing in Oxford Insight to ensure that students watched and understood the content.Selling point: Illustrative Videos Illustrate concepts discussed in the chapter.Selling point: Theory in Action illustrates how theories can be used when adults interact with children. These sections illuminate a variety of concepts.Selling point: Culture Counts highlights surprising and interesting research that demonstrates ways in which cultural differences show up in children''s lives and development.

This feature examines the meanings of cultural differences and how adults can effectively support children in different circumstances while introducing students to techniques of data analysisSelling point: Group and Individual Activities - Every section ends with thoughtfully designed activities that encourage students-individually and in small groups-to take the perspective of parents, caregivers, and pediatric health professionalsSelling point: Act It Out! consists of prompts featuring real-life situations in which students can choose roles and act out scenarios.Selling point: Show What You''ve Learned! activities present students with scenarios drawn from real life and ask them to write letters, make action choices, or give advice to protagonists in a story, based on the information they have learned in the section.Selling point: What Would You Do? - encourages students to make their own choices and afterward are presented with a fictional scenario to see how their choice played out.Selling point: What''s Your Position? encourages students to think critically about important topics, using the material in the book and additional recommended resources to construct their own opinion and to justify that opinion in a clear way, based on factsSelling point: Each chapter contains coverage of how technology impacts the lives of children today.