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Jackie Iger

A Review of Living Language and Rocket Languages - App Smart - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Apps that will help you learn a new language.
Jackie Iger

Educational Apps | MindShift - 3 views

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    MindSnacks leads the way in "Gamified" educational apps for learning new languages. Some of these look pretty cool...
Brandon Pousley

The New Face of Adaptive Learning - 0 views

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    Article focusing on emerging technology in the realm of facial recognition that may be able to bolster the non-cognitive abilities of adaptive learning environments, by recognizing a student's reaction to content by analyzing body language.
Kiran Patwardhan

Education Reform: Language and Technology vs. STEM - 0 views

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    As we get closer to the presidential election, organizations and individuals are once again appealing to officials for an education reform. Over the past few years there has been a push for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) programs. What about a push for language instruction?
Chris McEnroe

A Picture of Language - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • It was more than 300 pages long,
  • unipersonal
  • rhetorico-grammatical figures
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    this article reminded me how unengaged I was/am by the idea of diagramming sentences in spite of some people I know who thrill in the memories. It seems to me that the ipad offers some ap capability to reinvent this idea and make it even more visual.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Microsoft Research FUSE Labs - Kodu Game Lab - 4 views

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    "Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language."
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    I am going to try to use Kodu. If a 4th grader can use it..... :)
Chris McEnroe

Excerpt From My Book On Teaching English Language Learners | Larry Ferlazzo's... - 0 views

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    This teacher also provides a nice, practical synthesis of some of the ideas presented by our recent reading.
Katerina Manoff

School leavers given 'de-text' lessons to speak the language business needs; Social med... - 2 views

I've been reading a lot about this trend - I think it's equally prevalent in the US. I wonder how much of it is caused by our move away from school as preparation for career to school as a place fo...

social media text-speak sms language poor skills

Jerusha Saldaña Yanez

BBC News - Why did LOL infiltrate the language? - 3 views

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    Internet sland term added to the Oxford English Dictionary
Xiaodi Chen

Learn something new every day - Memrise - 4 views

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    This is such a well-designed learning platform! 
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    How's your Spanish/Italian going? Do you think this site is good for fostering creativity as well as memorization?
Leslie Lieman

Man vs. Computer: Who Wins the Essay-Scoring Challenge? - Curriculum Matters - Educatio... - 2 views

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    If computers can score writing, of course the first use will be for assessment. No surprise there. But how might we use this more creatively?
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    I tried to bring an scoring software program into my school. Nobody liked it except for myself. I thought the objective measure would be more motivating to students. But the other teachers thought that the students should have more practice with rubrics themselves. My school focused heavily on peer editing and scoring. Also, when teachers see such a large number of average scores they tend to disbelieve the results. For example, when I score the essays, there may be a lot of 'B's but I've sees the difference in between Betty's 'B' and Joe's 'B'. The grade is more of a reminder of my experience scoring Betty's writing. When the software scores it, I haven't necessarily seen the essay therefore the score doesn't mean as much. Of course the scoring makes much more sense for official assessments. Open Ended Responses are a much better measure of a student's understanding than multiple choice, if the software is able to distinguish the nuance of language. Some programs are scoring grammatical patterns, sentence length, and paragraph length; therefore, a student can be totally off topic and get a high score. I'm curious if this latest software corrected for this.
Chris Mosier

The Ups and Downs of Game-Based Learning - 1 views

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    This blog post describes the successes and failures of one school to integrate games into their latin language instruction. Teachers found the game compelling because it forced students to engage and prepare in a way that students do not in traditional classrooms.
Tracy Tan

History in Leeds, then maths in California; The internet has opened up a huge new world... - 0 views

(Restricted access article, so I'm posting it here.) I found what was said about 'engaging online learning experiences' very insightful: "It must be a well ordered, curated experience that underst...

online learning curating

started by Tracy Tan on 27 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
Tom Keffer

A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    If everyone is learning to write code for the internet, will we see an explosion of new sites, apps, and even games?
Leslie Lieman

Damaged Baby Brains-and a Video-Game Fix - 2 views

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    Some researchers are looking at how video games open up new wiring in the brain. "Infancy is filled with the best of times: critical windows of weeks and months when the growing brain fine-tunes things like language skills and vision. And it's wise to take advantage of them, for when the windows slam shut, those skills don't develop. Or so scientists used to think." Also, "Playing a video game called Medal of Honor helped some people recover lost visual abilities." But some researchers are not confident we know enough or raise ethical questions about further interventions.
Jerald Cole

MITx Open Courseware Initiative Past, PResent and Future - 1 views

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    In this presentation by Cecilia d'Oliveira, MIT OpenCourseWare's Executive Director and Shigeru Miyagawa, Chair of MIT OpenCourseWare's Faculty Advisory Committee and Head of MIT's Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, we'll examine the how open educational resources are changing the educational landscape and meeting the global demands for open knowledge.
Parisa Rouhani

Music Helps Stroke Victims Communicate, Study Finds - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • music may hold the key to unlocking language, according to a new study.
  • patients who were taught to essentially sing their words improved their verbal abilities and maintained the improvement for up to a month after the end of the therapy,
  • there are separate brain networks associated with vocal output, with one more engaged with speech and the other with music. With certain types of stroke, fibers on the left side of the brain that are important to the interaction of the auditory and the motor system are disrupted. But if the brain could recruit the fibers from the right side, which are more engaged with music, then the system could adapt.
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  • he patients who benefit the most from the treatment are those who are able to hear the "melodic contour" of words and thus generalize their learning beyond the words taught by their therapist.
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