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"Call it counterintuitive clickbait if you must, but Forbes' Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry made an intriguing argument when he granted the title of "Language of the Future" to French, of all tongues. "French isn't mostly spoken by French people and hasn't been for a long time now," he admits," but "the language is growing fast, and growing in the fastest-growing areas of the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. The latest projection is that French will be spoken by 750 million people by 2050. One study "even suggests that by that time, French could be the most-spoken language in the world, ahead of English and even Mandarin." I don't know about you, but I can never believe in any wave of the future without a traceable past. But the French language has one, of course, and a long and storied one at that. You see it visualized in the information graphic above (also available in suitable-for-framing prints!) created by Minna Sundberg, author of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent. "When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor," writes Mental Floss' Arika Okrent. "An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian)." Sundberg takes this tree metaphor to a delightfully lavish extreme, tracing, say, how Indo-European linguistic roots sprouted a variety of modern-day living languages including Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Italian - and, of course, our Language of the Future. The size of the branches and bunches of leaves represent the number of speakers of each language at different times: the likes of English and Spanish have sprouted into mighty vegetative clusters, while others, like, Swedish, Dutch, and Punjabi, assert a more local dominance over their own, separately grown regional branches. Will French's now-modest leaves one day cast a shadow over the w

"Call it counterintuitive clickbait if you must, but Forbes' Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry made an intriguing argument when he granted the title of "Language of the Future" to French, of all tongues. "French isn't mostly spoken by French people and hasn't been for a long time now," he admits," but "the language is growing fast, and growing in the fastest-growing areas of the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. The latest projection is that French will be spoken by 750 million people by 2050. One study "even suggests that by that time, French could be the most-spoken language in the world, ahead of English and even Mandarin." I don't know about you, but I can never believe in any wave of the future without a traceable past. But the French language has one, of course, and a long and storied one at that. You see it visualized in the information graphic above (also available in suitable-for-framing prints!) created by Minna Sundberg, author of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent. "When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor," writes Mental Floss' Arika Okrent. "An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian)." Sundberg takes this tree metaphor to a delightfully lavish extreme, tracing, say, how Indo-European linguistic roots sprouted a variety of modern-day living languages including Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Italian - and, of course, our Language of the Future. The size of the branches and bunches of leaves represent the number of speakers of each language at different times: the likes of English and Spanish have sprouted into mighty vegetative clusters, while others, like, Swedish, Dutch, and Punjabi, assert a more local dominance over their own, separately grown regional branches. Will French's now-modest leaves one day cast a shadow over the w

"Enseñar a redactar el título de cualquier texto no es una Técnica de Estudio nada fácil. Básicamente, la dificultad reside en ser capaz de condensar en pocas palabras la esencia de un escrito. Pero os aseguro que es un tipo de Técnica de Estudio que al profesor le sirve para, entre otros aspectos: evaluar la capacidad de síntesis del alumno y comprobar si el alumno ha entendido el texto en cuestión. El artículo de hoy tiene como finalidad enseñaros algunas pautas que sigo a la hora de redactar el título de un texto, independientemente de la tipología textual de que se trate (narrativo, descriptivo, expositivo, argumentativo, periodístico…) ¿Qué es una Estructura Analizante? Cuando nos enfrentamos a un texto, sea de la modalidad que sea, hay que saber antes de redactar un título cuál es su estructura. Principalmente, existen cuatro tipos de estructuras textuales: Analizante Sintetizante Paralela Encuadrada No voy a entrar a explicar todas estas estructuras, sólo me centraré en la Estructura Analizante. En Secundaria la práctica totalidad de textos suelen tener una Estructura Analizate. Esto significa que las ideas o palabras clave se sitúan en las primeras oraciones o en el primer párrafo del texto. Por tanto, hay que enseñar primero al alumno a que sea capaz de localizar estas palabras clave, porque serán la base del título. Sobre cómo enseñar a subrayar un texto recomiendo el artículo Cómo enseñar a tus alumnos a subrayar las palabras clave de un texto. ¿Qué dos clases de tipos de títulos tiene un texto? Existen muchas formas de ponerle un título a un texto, pero yo recomiendo dos: A. Título objetivo. Es el título que explica la información más importante del texto a partir de las palabras clave. Es el título que en pocas palabras trata de explicar los aspectos más importantes del mismo. Pensad, por ejemplo, en el titular de una noticia de un periódico. B. Título subjetivo. Es u

"Enseñar a redactar el título de cualquier texto no es una Técnica de Estudio nada fácil. Básicamente, la dificultad reside en ser capaz de condensar en pocas palabras la esencia de un escrito. Pero os aseguro que es un tipo de Técnica de Estudio que al profesor le sirve para, entre otros aspectos: evaluar la capacidad de síntesis del alumno y comprobar si el alumno ha entendido el texto en cuestión. El artículo de hoy tiene como finalidad enseñaros algunas pautas que sigo a la hora de redactar el título de un texto, independientemente de la tipología textual de que se trate (narrativo, descriptivo, expositivo, argumentativo, periodístico…) ¿Qué es una Estructura Analizante? Cuando nos enfrentamos a un texto, sea de la modalidad que sea, hay que saber antes de redactar un título cuál es su estructura. Principalmente, existen cuatro tipos de estructuras textuales: Analizante Sintetizante Paralela Encuadrada No voy a entrar a explicar todas estas estructuras, sólo me centraré en la Estructura Analizante. En Secundaria la práctica totalidad de textos suelen tener una Estructura Analizate. Esto significa que las ideas o palabras clave se sitúan en las primeras oraciones o en el primer párrafo del texto. Por tanto, hay que enseñar primero al alumno a que sea capaz de localizar estas palabras clave, porque serán la base del título. Sobre cómo enseñar a subrayar un texto recomiendo el artículo Cómo enseñar a tus alumnos a subrayar las palabras clave de un texto. ¿Qué dos clases de tipos de títulos tiene un texto? Existen muchas formas de ponerle un título a un texto, pero yo recomiendo dos: A. Título objetivo. Es el título que explica la información más importante del texto a partir de las palabras clave. Es el título que en pocas palabras trata de explicar los aspectos más importantes del mismo. Pensad, por ejemplo, en el titular de una noticia de un periódico. B. Título subjetivo. Es u

"Play Back Your Own Google Docs Draftback is a Chrome extension that lets you play back any Google Doc's revision history (for docs you can edit). It's like going back in time to look over your own shoulder as you write. Download it for Chrome here You can use Draftback directly from any Google Doc. Just look for the Draftback button! All the revision rendering is done securely on your own computer. Even large documents can be processed quickly. When your doc has been processed, you can play it back like it's a movie. Download it here Since Draftback is a Chrome extension, your Docs data never leaves your own computer, and, unless you explicitly publish an excerpt, the extension never communicates any sensitive data with any server-it just fetches it over a secure connection from Google. All the computation for rendering the playback is done by your own computer, and it's stored there, too."

"How Do I Get Started? A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing a Student-Centered Classroom Part I Part Two: It's All About You Part Three: The Syllabus Part Four: Students Part Five: Collectively Writing a Constitution"

"Close Reading and Argument Writing - Authentically Across the Curriculum 7/16/2015 0 Comments Close reading of informational texts and non-fiction articles is not - and should not be - reserved for language arts classes. Every content area would be immensely enhanced if science teachers, social studies teachers, physical education teachers, welding teachers, woodworking teachers (in other words, "all technical subjects," as Common Core states) would not push aside the textbook, but instead embrace it, along with content area and trade articles. Students would then simultaneously learn how to dissect the readings while gaining knowledge in these content areas. What often happens is that teachers feel that students can't handle the text books or can't read the articles independently - and often that is true. However, when teachers instead go into a survival mode, of sorts, and read aloud the whole chapter or article or summarize it with a slideshow, it ends up doing a disservice to students - students are not learning HOW to read these complex texts. They are not learning how to acquire the information on their own. They are not being given the skills to read the sometimes intricate information within a particular content area or even within their possible future trade. They are not being given the opportunity to read, understand, articulate, and discuss or even debate topics within their area of study. Teachers sometimes feel that they can't do these things with students because they are not language arts teachers, or because they don't have time, or simply because they don't know how. Alternatively, a simple solution is to let go of the control and let students do…..with the guidance called close reading. Close reading is a guided reading approach. It is guided because 1) the close reading strategy is reserved for complex texts that are often too high for students to be left with independently and 2) students don't use close reading strateg

"StopMotion Preview for Entangle A plugin for Entangle to preview Stop Motion animation. This plugin provides a new window that will preview the Stop Motion animation made from the photos of the current session. The animation plays indefinitely in loop. It has been tested in Entangle version 0.6.0, which at the moment of this writing is the latest. Go get it!."

"adquisición de competencias digitales, fomentar la lectura activa y crítica, estimular el trabajo colaborativo, mejorar la comunicación con las familias y con el resto del centro educativo, facilitar diferentes formas de expresión y comunicación audiovisual…"

Vistosa herramienta 2.0 para crear cuentos online y compartirlas en la red. Ofrece gran variedad de atractivas imágenes y, su punto fuerte es la posibilidad de construir las historias de forma colaborativa. Es una herramienta muy adecuada para trabajar la escritura, la lectura y también la creatividad de nuestros alumnos. Aunque es gratuita, su versión de pago ofrece más posibilidades. También es de gran utilidad para el visionado de cuentos en el aula, especialmente en inglés. Sin duda, una herramienta fascinante.

I just wanted to bring to your attention a doctoral-level course that all students in IDT and ICL should consider for the Spring 2013 semester.  IDT 8500 is referred to as "the writing class" by our students.  The course description says,
"Students will critique academic research findings and syn

para hacer cuentos digitales

edición colaborativa

One of my B2 ESL learners became an adventurous cook over the Halloween weekend and has come up with this yummy recipe!