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dorie conlon

ACTFL Advocacy Video - Speak Up for Languages - 0 views

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ACTFL Advocacy Parents Teachers Students Professional Organizations video director's choice

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  • dorie conlon on 23 Jun 10
     
    "This 30 second public service announcements features young children telling why learning languages is important"
dorie conlon

Discover Languages - 0 views

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Parents Teachers Students Advocacy Contest

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  • dorie conlon on 22 Jan 10
     
    Resources for Foreign Language advocacy.
Barbara Lindsey

Immersion in other cultures enhances creativity » Moving at the Speed of Crea... - 0 views

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teachers students parents video study abroad immersion creativity research advocacy

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  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    Love this video! Great advocacy piece.
Jan Eklund

"You Learned Russian...in High School?" Christian Science Monitor article - 1 views

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Parents Teachers Students Russian Critical Languages Advocacy

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  • Jan Eklund on 24 Jun 10
     
    Nice article about Glastonbury's Russian program
Jan Eklund

Is Learning a Language Other Than English Worthwhile? - Room for Debate - 0 views

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language learning advocacy critical languages

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  • Jan Eklund on 30 Jan 12
     
    A debate in the New York Times about many aspects of learning languages other than English. This topic also has a Facebook group.
Jan Eklund

"Finding Our Way with Words," NEA Today article about Glastonbury's Russian Program - 1 views

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Parents Teachers Students Russian Critical Languages Advocacy

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  • Jan Eklund on 24 Jun 10
     
    Nice article about our program!
dorie conlon

Making Music Boosts Brain's Language Skills - 0 views

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Publications Advocacy Music Research Parents Teachers Students

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  • dorie conlon on 23 Feb 10
     
    very interesting article from National Geographic - "brain-imaging studies have shown that music activates many diverse parts of the brain, including an overlap in where the brain processes music and language"
Barbara Lindsey

Tech How To: Podcasts | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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podcast teacher students parents advocacy technology tutorial

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 23 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Every week, Paul Bogush’s eighth-grade social studies students in Wallingford, Connecticut, get an opportunity that would be rare in a tech-free classroom. The kids take 20 minutes during lunch to interview career mentors—such as the dean of the Yale University School of Nursing—on the phone, in person, or over Skype. Then they share the interviews with the world in a podcast called Lunchtime Leaders.
Barbara Lindsey

AASA :: 10 Reasons You Should Pay Attention to Social Media - 0 views

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social media administrators teachers advocacy technology blog twitter facebook

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 05 Jan 10
     
    Why school admins should pay attention to social media. Thx to @tmsaue1
Barbara Lindsey

Why We Should Learn Other Languages | Edutopia - 0 views

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teachers parents students advocacy publications

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  • the mental and emotional process of learning a language not one's own is still among the most powerful forces in education.
  • Learn a language, and you learn a people. Learn a people, and you learn about yourself.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 03 Dec 09
     
    "the mental and emotional process of learning a language not one's own is still among the most powerful forces in education"
dorie conlon

National Network for Early Language Learning - 0 views

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Teachers Professional Organizations elementary advocacy

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  • dorie conlon on 22 Jan 10
     
    "The National Network for Early Language Learning (NNELL) is an educational community providing leadership in support of successful early language learning and teaching."
dorie conlon

Connecticut Council of Language Teachers - 0 views

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Teachers Professional Organizations advocacy

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  • dorie conlon on 22 Jan 10
     
    "The Connecticut Council of Language Teachers advocates world language learning for all students at all grade levels supports teacher and student activities that demonstrate language teaching and learning, and recognizes the success of teachers and students in world languages."
dorie conlon

American Counsil on the Teaching of Foreign Languages - 0 views

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Teachers Professional Organizations ACTFL advocacy

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  • dorie conlon on 22 Jan 10
     
    "The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is the only national organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction. ACTFL is an individual membership organization of more than 9,000 foreign language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate education, as well as government and industry."
Kate Krotzer

FERTILE MINDS -- Printout -- TIME - 0 views

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Teachers Advocacy

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  • Kate Krotzer on 24 Aug 11
     
    Rat-a-tat-tat. rat-a-tat-tat. Rat-a-tat-tat. If scientists could eavesdrop on the brain of a human embryo 10, maybe 12 weeks after conception, they would hear an astonishing racket. Inside the womb, long before light first strikes the retina of the eye or the earliest dreamy images flicker through the cortex, nerve cells in the developing brain crackle with purposeful activity.
Barbara Lindsey

iSchool Initiative - 0 views

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teachers students parents administration blog video advocacy technology ipod collaboration partnership

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 16 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • dorie conlon on 15 Mar 10
     
    The iSchool Initiative's mission is to advocate, support and implement technological advancement for students and educators in the 21st century. In order to accomplish this, we have three primary objectives: raising awareness for the technological needs of the classroom, providing collaborative research on the use of technology in the classroom, and guiding schools in the implementation of this technology. We are a partnership between students, teachers, school administrators, and software application developers, providing a platform for each to comprehend the other's needs. We produce newsletters, blogs, videos and seminars to further spread the word, as well as conduct our own research and test new apps and other forms of technology to be used in the modern classroom. To enhance their learning, we also encourage students to become advocates for the greater use of technology in their education.
Barbara Lindsey

Different class: How a new online approach aims to revolutionise language learning - Sc... - 0 views

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teachers parents advocacy publications critical languages

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Five years since secondary school pupils were allowed to drop languages after the age of 14, the number of young people taking a modern foreign language at GCSE has slumped. The Government currently has no plans to make languages a compulsory subject again, preferring instead to make them available to all primary schoolchildren. But there are new initiatives afoot to encourage secondary school pupils to learn foreign languages.
  • athryn Board is the chief executive at Cilt, the National Centre for Languages, which is working to motivate young people through initiatives such as the annual Language and Film Talent Awards (Laftas). She says the removal of foreign languages as a compulsory element of education for children older than 14 puts British youngsters at an unfair disadvantage when it comes to carving out international careers. But her message is more about using language-learning to boost employability, literacy and reading skills than attempting to push school-leavers into specialised languages-based careers.
  • While our sometimes smug attitude to foreign languages rests on the belief that the rest of the world speaks English, this is no longer the case, according to Cilt.In 2000, 51 per cent of internet use was in English, but this figure has now dropped in favour of Chinese and Arabic. While English remains a key language of business for the present, it is quite possible that Mandarin will overtake it."Less than 7 per cent of the world speaks English as a first language and 75 per cent of the world's population don't speak any English at all," says Board, "so to assume that our mother tongue is sufficient to get by in most circumstances simply isn't true any more." If, at a time of increased globalisation, being able to offer at least a smattering of someone else's language puts you ahead of the game in all sorts of different walks of life, then in terms of popularity, languages are at an all-time low.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 16 Oct 09
     
    Five years since secondary school pupils were allowed to drop languages after the age of 14, the number of young people taking a modern foreign language at GCSE has slumped. The Government currently has no plans to make languages a compulsory subject again, preferring instead to make them available to all primary schoolchildren. But there are new initiatives afoot to encourage secondary school pupils to learn foreign languages.
dorie conlon

Being Bilingual May Boost Your Brain Power - NPR Story - 0 views

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Advocacy Parents Teachers Critical Languages bilingual multilingual research

shared by dorie conlon on 04 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • dorie conlon on 04 Apr 11
     
    In an interconnected world, speaking more than one language is becoming increasingly common. Approximately one-fifth of Americans speak a non-English language at home, and globally, as many as two-thirds of children are brought up bilingual. Research suggests that the growing numbers of bilingual speakers may have an advantage that goes beyond communication: It turns out that being bilingual is also good for your brain.
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