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Adam Babcock

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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shared by Adam Babcock on 29 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Native American languages impose on their speakers a picture of reality that is totally different from ours, so their speakers would simply not be able to understand some of our most basic concepts, like the flow of time or the distinction between objects
  • rash-landed on hard facts and solid common sense, when it transpired that there had never actually been any evidence to support his fantastic claims
  • new research has revealed that when we learn our mother tongue, we do after all acquire certain habits of thought that shape our experience in significant and often surprising ways.
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  • if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about
  • You may well wonder whether my companion was male or female, but I have the right to tell you politely that it’s none of your business. But if we were speaking French or German, I wouldn’t have the privilege to equivocate in this way
  • but I do have to tell you something about the timing of the event: I have to decide whether we dined, have been dining, are dining, will be dining and so on. Chinese, on the other hand, does not oblige its speakers to specify the exact time of the action in this way, because the same verb form can be used for past, present or future actions.
  • When speakers were asked to grade various objects on a range of characteristics, Spanish speakers deemed bridges, clocks and violins to have more “manly properties” like strength, but Germans tended to think of them as more slender or elegant.
  • gendered languages” imprint gender traits for objects so strongly in the mind that these associations obstruct speakers’ ability to commit information to memory
  • When French speakers saw a picture of a fork (la fourchette), most of them wanted it to speak in a woman’s voice, but Spanish speakers, for whom el tenedor is masculine, preferred a gravelly male voice for it.
  • Nonetheless, once gender connotations have been imposed on impressionable young minds, they lead those with a gendered mother tongue to see the inanimate world through lenses tinted with associations and emotional responses that English speakers — stuck in their monochrome desert of “its” — are entirely oblivious to.
Adam Babcock

The Associated Press: Sex, drugs more common in hyper-texting teens - 5 views

www.google.com/...M5jht7cEk4IO98NjHsv0mhHmLf6cVA

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shared by Adam Babcock on 09 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • aren't suggesting that "hyper-texting" leads to sex, drinking or drugs, but say it's startling to see an apparent link between excessive messaging and that kind of risky behavior
  • It found that about one in five students were hyper-texters and about one in nine are hyper-networkers — those who spend three or more hours a day on Facebook and other social networking websites.About one in 25 fall into both categories.
  • Hyper-texting and hyper-networking were more common among girls, minorities, kids whose parents have less education and students from a single-mother household, the study found.
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  • a legitimate question to explore
  • tudy found those who text at least 120 times a day are nearly three-and-a-half times more likely to have had sex than their peers who don't text that much
  • Talking on the phone just isn't appealing to some teens, said her classmate, Ivanna Storms-Thompson."Your arm gets tired, your ear gets sweaty," said Ivanna, who also doesn't like the awkward silences.
Mary Worrell

Open Culture - 12 views

www.openculture.com

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shared by Mary Worrell on 12 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Mary Worrell on 16 Sep 10
     
    All sorts of free stuff here! Free podcats, foreign language lessons, etc.
  • Mary Worrell on 16 Sep 10
     
    All sorts of free stuff here! Free podcats, foreign language lessons, etc. I haven't sifted through everything, but I found it through a tweet by @todbaker - there might be some good lesson ideas or resources in here.
Mary Worrell

Teacher Magazine: Giving Classrooms a Purpose - 11 views

www.edweek.org/...ln_ferlazzo_effectiveness.html

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shared by Mary Worrell on 21 Jan 10 - Cached
  • “Never do for someone what they can do for themselves. Never.”
    • Mary Worrell
      Mary Worrell on 21 Jan 10
       
      This is something every teacher, myself included, should keep in mind when students struggle. Help them, but only enough so they can finish the race on their own. Zone of proximal development.
  • On our overhead, I enter the choices in side-by-side columns and give examples of the difference between the two.
    • Mary Worrell
      Mary Worrell on 21 Jan 10
       
      I love this idea! Making our teaching processes and decisions transparent to students gives them more ownership in the classroom.
  • Mary Worrell on 21 Jan 10
     
    I really enjoyed this post by Larry Ferlazzo (thanks to Meredith Stewart's retweet). Got me thinking about the sort of classroom culture I'd like to help create with my students.
Dana Huff

Bardfilm: The Shakespeare and Film Microblog: The Ten Best Uses of Shakespeare Sonnets ... - 18 views

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shared by Dana Huff on 20 May 10 - Cached
  • Dana Huff on 20 May 10
     
    Some of these videos would be great for teaching sonnets, especially if you want students to act them out.
Adam Babcock

R-word.org - Change the conversation... - 9 views

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shared by Adam Babcock on 31 May 10 - Cached
  • Adam Babcock on 31 May 10
     
    Spread the Word to End the Word
Tracee Orman

Firework by Katy Perry Song Lyrics Poetry Terms Figurative Language - Tracee Orman - Te... - 22 views

www.teacherspayteachers.com/...etry-Terms-Figurative-Language

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  • Tracee Orman on 25 Feb 11
     
    Teach poetic devices using "Firework" by Katy Perry song lyrics
Adam Babcock

"Monster" analysis by Shmoop - 12 views

www.shmoop.com/kanye-monster

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shared by Adam Babcock on 18 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Keith Schoch on 19 Mar 11
     
    I'm all for using pop culture references in teaching, and I did read what Shmoop had to say on this particular video, but would you really feel comfortable sharing this video in class and having a discourse on it? I'm a Jay-Z fan and a hip hop lover from its earliest days, but this video and song are reprehensible on so many levels. With so much else that we can "source" for instruction, why this? Please help me understand. And don't say it's a gangsta thang.
  • Adam Babcock on 20 Mar 11
     
    To answer your first question about showing the music video: absolutely not. Why this? I'm still struggling with it. We're in an age where we are entertained by self destruction. Kanye (unfortunately, because I was a fan of his earlier work) is definitely becoming one of the monster / Charlie Sheen / Jersey Shore / reality TV burnouts. And yet, there is an audience for it... When I first skimmed the analysis, I thought I'd go back to see if Schmoop was established enough to have a worthy application of Freud to Kanye. Alas, I was mistaken. I haven't become a fan of Schmoop; they've got some work to do. I'm sorry I misplaced my "under investigation" tag in ECN's collection.
Adam Babcock

Sistine Chapel - Cappella Sistina - Photosynth - 4 views

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history culture art literature bible

shared by Adam Babcock on 05 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Adam Babcock on 05 Aug 11
     
    Great tool that encourages users/students to explore the different stages of the Sistine Chapel. Could work well with a Genesis lesson.
Teresa Ilgunas

Word Spy - 11 views

www.wordspy.com

reference dictionary language words english culture vocabulary

shared by Teresa Ilgunas on 06 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Teresa Ilgunas on 06 Nov 09
     
    "The Word Lover's Guide to New Words"
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