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in title, tags, annotations or urlDuolingo - 0 views
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A Wicked Deception - YouTube - 0 views
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10 iPhone Apps to Get You Back to School - 0 views
Do You Speak "Academia"? » Edurati Review - 0 views
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the opening main clause, “Education is an all-encompassing institution,” makes little sense, and the rest of the sentence fails to clarify its meaning. The use of “each and every” is redundant; if each continent and culture, then, by default, it is every continent and culture. After the semicolon, good verbs become weak adjectives: functional and organizational. The entire paragraph could be restructured as an easily understood sentence: In every society, schools organize, function, and operate similarly.
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Why pick on paragraphs pulled from their contexts? If you read (or try to read) educational journals, you’ll find that these examples are not isolated. They illustrate the “academic style” characterizing such periodicals. These periodicals, their supporters argue, provide the link between research and classroom practice. But the poor communication—the academic writing—requires the reader to add steps to the usually efficient cognition of comprehension. The reader is forced to pause and ask, “What does that mean in plain English?” It’s not that different from reading text in a second language, one in which the reader may be knowledgeable but not proficient.
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This same gap often exists between students and their textbooks.
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Education Week: Science Grows on Acquiring New Language - 0 views
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For example, when babies born to native-English-speaking parents played three times a week during that window with a native-Mandarin-speaking tutor, at 12 months, they had progressed in their ability to recognize both English and Mandarin sounds, rather than starting to retrench in the non-native language. By contrast, children exposed only to audio or video recordings of native speakers showed no change in their language trajectory. Brain-imaging of the same children backed up the results of test-based measures of language specialization.
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The research may not immediately translate into a new language arts curriculum, but it has already deepened the evidence for something most educators believe instinctively: Social engagement, particularly with speakers of multiple languages, is critical to language learning.
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“The key to that series of studies is exposure and live interactions with native speakers,” Ms. Lebedeva said. “The interactions need to be naturalistic: eye contact, gestures, exaggerated phonemes.”
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researchers long thought the window for learning a new language shrinks rapidly after age 7 and closes almost entirely after puberty. Yet interdisciplinary research conducted over the past five years at the University of Washington, Pennsylvania State University, and other colleges suggest that the time frame may be more flexible than first thought and that students who learn additional languages become more adaptable in other types of learning, too.
University of Houston Study: Hybrid Courses More Effective for Students - 0 views
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hybrid class that incorporated instructional technology with in-class lectures scored a letter grade higher on average than their counterparts who took the same class in a more traditional format.
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the hybrid class met once a week for traditional 90-minute lectures augmented with in-class response after doing 90 minutes of online work, which included a quiz that could be taken twice.
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Students who attended the hybrid course received final grades that were 10% higher than those who attended the traditional class, which translated to a full letter grade increase."Presumably, this increase is due to the fact that students were able to increase their exposure to course content via access to material on WebCT," McFarlin writes in his report,
Curricula Designed to Meet 21st-Century Expectations | Resources | EDUCAUSE - 0 views
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W here students had once called a large number of their classes "death by lecture," she noted they were now calling them "death by PowerPoint." >
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here students had once called a large number of their classes "death by lecture," she noted they were now calling them "death by PowerPoint."
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Curricula Designed to Meet 21st-Century Expectations | EDUCAUSE - 1 views
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Faculty concerns perhaps center less on being "replaceable" and more on worrying that the teaching and learning enterprise will be reduced to students gathering information that can be easily downloaded, causing them to rely too heavily on technology instead of intellect.
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First, traditional age students overwhelmingly prefer face-to-face contact with faculty to mediated communication. Second, technology used in the service of learning will require more—not less—sophistication on the part of students as they engage in processes of integration, translation, audience analysis, and critical judgment.
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With such specific applications of technology and the limited use of other forms (for example, multimedia), students' low expectations for the use of technology in the curriculum is not surprising. Such constrained use of technology by the faculty in the curriculum and low student expectations may serve to limit innovation and creativity as well as the faculty's capacity to engage students more deeply in their subject matter.
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I completely agree. As a student, I don't think a text-based PowerPoint slide presentation would interest me too much, partcularly when there are too many words squeezed into just one slide. If a PowerPoint slide presentation is just a copy of texts, the use of technology makes nothing different from teaching with a blackboard and chalks. The use of technology must have, and then can serve, a pedagogical purpose.
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This remindes me of the first time stuents at my school started using powerpoints to make presentations and how exciting it was for them to see thier classmates ideas presented in front of them this way. Over using this and without really integraing sth new than their words written, showed boredom and disinterest later! So teachers should think here of using technology in a different way like turning the lesson into a digital story or using technology differently ! Being unexpected in the way you use technology in the classrooom, would make them always eager to learn and excited about it!!!
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Stanford University prepares for an amazing "bookless library" - San Jose Mercury News - 0 views
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"The role of this new library is less to do with shelving and checking out books — and much more about research and discovery," said Andrew Herkovic, director of communications and development at Stanford Libraries.
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It is only half the size of the current Engineering Library, but saves its space for people, not things. It features soft seating, "brainstorm islands," a digital bulletin board, and group event space. There are few shelves and it will feature a self-checkout system.
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The sciences are the perfect place to test bookless libraries, librarians say. In math, online books tend to render formulas badly. And those in the humanities, arts and social sciences still embrace the serendipitous discoveries made while browsing. Johanna Drucker, UCLA professor of information studies, moreover asks: "What version of a work should be digitized as representative? Leo Tolstoy's original Russian text? Or the Maude translation? Should we digitize the sanitized version of Mark Twain's classics, or the originals?"
lingro: Biografia de Ricardo Palma - 0 views
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(Lima, 1833 - Miraflores, 1919) Escritor peruano, creador de un género intermedio entre el relato y la crónica, que renovó la prosa sudamericana. Aunque se le considera integrante de la escuela romántica, su obra no obedece del todo a sus presupuestos, salvo por algunos matices estilísticos que empleó como soporte formal. Es cierto que en su juventud hizo una apasionada defensa del romanticismo, pero luego lo juzgaría con gran severidad y trazaría su propio derrotero artístico.
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Ricardo Palma (Lima, 1833 - Miraflores, 1919) Escritor peruano, creador de un género intermedio entre el relato y la crónica, que renovó la prosa sudamericana. Aunque se le considera integrante de la escuela romántica, su obra no obedece del todo a sus presupuestos, salvo por algunos matices estilísticos que empleó como soporte formal. Es cierto que en su juventud hizo una apasionada defensa del romanticismo, pero luego lo juzgaría con gran severidad y trazaría su propio derrotero artístico.
Why Crowdsourcing Works For Going Global - 0 views
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