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Adam Babcock

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

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  • 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.
Leslie Healey

The Great Textbook Wars - American RadioWorks - 2 views

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shared by Leslie Healey on 06 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 06 Sep 10
     
    NPR documentary on the first battle in the war over textbooks--70s style. Texas is implementing round two in 2010, and we have not even attempted to deal with the advent of eBooks yet!
Mary Worrell

Companies want applicants with social-media skills  | ajc.com - 6 views

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shared by Mary Worrell on 07 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Mary Worrell on 07 Sep 10
     
    Just another argument for getting social media into classrooms. Our students will be expected to demonstrate their digital footprints in job interviews and not addressing this is doing them a disservice.
Mary Worrell

Her Own Terms: The Teaching Life Revisited - 3 views

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shared by Mary Worrell on 07 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Mary Worrell on 07 Sep 10
     
    Inspirational post about the tears and rewards that come with being a teacher.
  • Mary Worrell on 07 Sep 10
     
    Incredibly inspiring. Read this when you're wondering how you're going to make it through another year!
Dana Huff

Stu's Quiz Boxes! - 7 views

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shared by Dana Huff on 30 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Dana Huff on 30 Sep 10
     
    Make review games for your interactive white board with Stu's Quiz Boxes.
Adam Babcock

GLADINET - Cloud Storage Access Platform & Solutions - 0 views

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  • Adam Babcock on 21 Oct 10
     
    Create a Gladinet Drive to seamlessly access multiple cloud storage services using the familiar Windows® Explorer interface. Drag and drop folders or an entire drive to quickly transfer thousands of files. Access and manipulate cloud files with local applications. 
Adam Babcock

On a Musical Note: Exploring Reading Strategies by Creating a Soundtrack - ReadWriteThink - 9 views

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literature reading music

shared by Adam Babcock on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Adam Babcock on 06 Oct 10
     
    Students begin by analyzing how specific songs might fit with a familiar story. Students then create their own soundtracks for the movie version of a novel they have read. They select songs that match the text and fit specific events in the story.
Dennis OConnor

21st Century Literacy - 12 views

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21st century information fluency 21cif writing 6-traits

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  • Dennis OConnor on 12 Oct 10
     
    Teaching digital literacy, information literacy, citizenship literacy via journalism lessons and resources for 7-12 grade students. I like the combination of writing journalism with the deep thinking skills needed for information fluency.
Leslie Healey

The false connotations inside "digital natives". » Alan Lawrence Sitomer - 12 views

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  • Leslie Healey on 19 Oct 10
     
    my students arrive in my class as juniors with only spotty digital fluency. I have a rep for being "hard" because we try new things...is this what I can expect from "digital natives" ????
Nik Peachey

Nik's Quick Shout: Make Quick Pronunciation Activities - 3 views

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  • Nik Peachey on 03 Dec 10
     
    "Text2Phonetics is a very handy site if you like to use phonemic script with your students. It can take a lot of the hard work out of transcribing text to phonetic symbols. You just paste in a short piece of text, click a button, and it does it for you."
Barry Janzen

Figment: Write yourself in. - 6 views

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shared by Barry Janzen on 09 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Barry Janzen on 09 Dec 10
     
    Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here.
Adam Babcock

K-2 Literacy Workstations from Kyrene School dist28 - 5 views

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literacy reading

shared by Adam Babcock on 10 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Adam Babcock on 10 Dec 10
     
    Some great activity ideas(with resources) for literacy stations.
Meredith Stewart

Preceden - Timelines for Everything - 7 views

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  • Meredith Stewart on 16 Feb 10
     
    Online timelines with multiple layers
Dennis OConnor

Web 2.0 Evaluation Kit - 6 views

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21cif information literacy evaluation fact checking accuracy

shared by Dennis OConnor on 23 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 23 Feb 10
     
    Resource kit with materials about evaluation of web 2.0 content. A building block for information fluency: knowing how to evaluate digital resources.
Karen LaBonte

Kidblog.org - Blogs for Teachers and Students - 3 views

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shared by Karen LaBonte on 20 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Karen LaBonte on 20 Feb 10
     
    Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs.
Karen LaBonte

Standards & Software - Tool-based Software and Florida Sunshine State Standards. - 0 views

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lesson_plans standards

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  • Karen LaBonte on 22 Feb 10
     
    Software classified by category with info on how they can be used to meet FL state standards. Some lesson plans.
anonymous

Fun with punctuation Boing Boing - 22 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Feb 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Feb 10
     
    Dangers of comma use or lack there of. Funny
Adam Babcock

Collaborative Online Diagram Software - Try it Free | Creately - 6 views

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shared by Adam Babcock on 27 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Adam Babcock on 16 Aug 10
     
    Creately is a visual collaboration platform used by project teams to communicate more effectively. With Creately's easy to use interface and Shared Projects, everyone on your design, development and business teams can collaborate on software designs, wireframes, business & strategy diagrams easily.
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