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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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gendered languages” imprint gender traits for objects so strongly in the mind that these associations obstruct speakers’ ability to commit information to memory
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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.
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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.
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Welcome to Wisc-Online.com - 4 views

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James Miscavish on 13 Feb 10

Collection of 'learning objects.' Lots of math and science stuff, but some good English stuff in here as well.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Collection of 'learning objects.' Lots of math and science stuff, but some good English stuff in here as well.</div>

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Awesome Stories - 16 views

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Wanda Terral on 15 Dec 11

AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites. Sources held in archives, which document so much important first-hand information, are often not searchable by popular search engines. One needs to search within those institutional sites directly, using specific search phrases not readily discernible to non-scholars. The experience can be frustrating, resulting in researchers leaving key sites without finding needed information. AwesomeStories is about primary sources. The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take the site's users to places where those primary sources are located. The author of each story is listed on the preface page of the story. A link to the author provides more detailed information. This educational teaching/learning tool is also designed to support state and national standards. Each story on the site links to online primary-source materials which are positioned in context to enhance reading comprehension, understanding and enjoyment.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites. Sources held in archives, which document so much important first-hand information, are often not searchable by popular search engines. One needs to search within those institutional sites directly, using specific search phrases not readily discernible to non-scholars. The experience can be frustrating, resulting in researchers leaving key sites without finding needed information. AwesomeStories is about primary sources. The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take the site's users to places where those primary sources are located. The author of each story is listed on the preface page of the story. A link to the author provides more detailed information. This educational teaching/learning tool is also designed to support state and national standards. Each story on the site links to online primary-source materials which are positioned in context to enhance reading comprehension, understanding and enjoyment.</div>

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Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction - 1 views

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Berylaube 00 on 15 Jul 12

This site contains hundreds of visual aids (illustrations) that can be used to support instructional tasks such as describing objects and people (i.e., teaching vocabulary) or describing entire events and situations (i.e., teaching grammar). Illustrations pour l'enseignement des langues étrangères"Ce site contient des centaines de supports visuels (illustrations) qui peuvent être utilisés pour supporter les tâches pédagogiques tels que des objets qui décrivent et des personnes (c.-à-enseignement du vocabulaire) ou décrivant des événements et des situations entières (c.-à-enseignement de la grammaire)."Plus de 400 dessins au trait, consultables et consultable, libres d'utiliser à des fins éducatives, repéré par Larry Ferlazzo. The illustrations were created as part of the Visuals for Developing Communication Skills in Foreign Language Classes project, initated by Paul Toth, former Director of the Less-Commonly-Taught Languages Center.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This site contains hundreds of visual aids (illustrations) that can be used to support instructional tasks such as describing objects and people (i.e., teaching vocabulary) or describing entire events and situations (i.e., teaching grammar). Illustrations pour l'enseignement des langues étrangères"Ce site contient des centaines de supports visuels (illustrations) qui peuvent être utilisés pour supporter les tâches pédagogiques tels que des objets qui décrivent et des personnes (c.-à-enseignement du vocabulaire) ou décrivant des événements et des situations entières (c.-à-enseignement de la grammaire)."Plus de 400 dessins au trait, consultables et consultable, libres d'utiliser à des fins éducatives, repéré par Larry Ferlazzo. The illustrations were created as part of the Visuals for Developing Communication Skills in Foreign Language Classes project, initated by Paul Toth, former Director of the Less-Commonly-Taught Languages Center.</div>

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Langston Hughes Papers - 0 views

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ten grrl on 01 Sep 09

The Langston Hughes Papers contain letters, manuscripts, personal items, photographs, clippings, artworks, and objects that document the life of the well-known African-American poet.

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Teaching the poem,"Fire and Ice" - 0 views

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James Miscavish on 16 Jul 09

# At this point, there are pupils who usually ask, "Is this a poem? What's so poetic about it?," which leads to the discussion about the tone and style of the poem; the powerful contrast between the explosive content of the poem and its dry, objective, al

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"># At this point, there are pupils who usually ask, "Is this a poem? What's so poetic about it?," which leads to the discussion about the tone and style of the poem; the powerful contrast between the explosive content of the poem and its dry, objective, al</div>

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George Bush Book 'Decision Points' Lifted From Advisers' Books - 4 views

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shared by Mark Smith on 15 Nov 10 - No Cached

Mark Smith on 15 Nov 10

Hmmm..... an object lesson in how not to use sources.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Hmmm..... an object lesson in how not to use sources.</div>

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The Differentiator - 21 views

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shared by Dana Huff on 29 Nov 10 - Cached

Dana Huff on 29 Nov 10

Build your objectives using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy.

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tta_Main.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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shared by Clifford Baker on 17 Sep 09 - No Cached

Clifford Baker on 17 Sep 09

Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success

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Professional Development Vocabulary Links2.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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shared by Karlana Kulseth on 19 Jul 09 - No Cached

Karlana Kulseth on 19 Jul 09

Links to different vocabulary sites and ideas

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The Importance of Student Journals and How to Respond Efficiently | Edutopia - 12 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 06 Sep 10 - Cached

Burdened by expanding curriculum and multiplying high-stakes assessment requirements, some of my respected colleagues might be forgiven for not integrating student journals into their courses. The most common objection: "Who has time?"
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t r u t h o u t | "Value-Added" Assessment: Tool for Improvement or Educational "Nuclea... - 4 views

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shared by Mark Smith on 16 Sep 10 - No Cached

The growing enthusiasm over value-added assessment, however, belies what is actually a damaging policy for public education. Value-added assessment promises, rather, to dismantle teachers' unions, deintellectualize teachers' jobs, to refashion schools according to corporate-profit-making initiatives and to burn out experienced teachers at ever faster rates. What its proponents fail to realize is that value added contributes to the destruction of public education by 1) participating in a broader corporate reform scheme of privatization and 2) objectifying knowledge, or turning knowledge into "things," that is, units that can be measured, compared and transmitted at the expense of genuine learning.
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There are two basically different ideas of educational value at play in this debate. For proponents of value-added assessment, standardized tests contain certain, verifiable and numerically quantifiable knowledge. The tests are mistakenly thought to be objective.
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Six+Traits-+Poster+Pack.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 8 views

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6-traits posters

shared by Dennis OConnor on 23 Feb 10 - No Cached

Dennis OConnor on 23 Feb 10

The Reading Writing Poster Pack

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RP_Winter09_PDF.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 1 views

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The0d0re Shatagin on 28 Feb 10

Early Literacy Report - 4 page in pdf

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Early Literacy Report - Successful practices

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Googledocsdocs.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 11 views

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Google Docs

shared by Devon Adams on 16 Mar 10 - No Cached

Devon Adams on 16 Mar 10

Really nice CC Google Docs handout packet with clear, simple screen shots.

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