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Devon Dickau

BBC News - 'Fair trade' solution to learning a new language - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11286290

language acquisition virtual education technology

shared by Devon Dickau on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • in our ever-shrinking, networked world, the chance to learn new languages direct from the communities that speak it naturally is just a few clicks away.
  • There are lots of different ways of learning languages. "Different people learn in different ways. I think these kinds of virtual environments are really great, really good. Kids in school respond very well to these sorts of approaches."
  • Devon Dickau on 30 Sep 10
     
    "Anything that brings language alive, whether that's in the real world or the virtual world, is a good thing."
Jaclyn Ruszala

1-to-1 Computing: Turning Around School Technology - 6 views

thejournal.com/...-around-school-technology.aspx

technology education

shared by Jaclyn Ruszala on 07 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 07 Dec 11
     
    This article explains why the district chose laptops over tablet and how the community is helping to turn the schools around.
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  • Allison Browne on 08 Dec 11
     
    This is a very throrough article.If replaceing computers every 4 years and maintaining them is only 4% of the budget, I wonder what all the resistence is to schools maintaining computers. Is 4% still too much? Is 4% specific to this Alabama district? Also, I felt individualized instruction for foreign language would be the best way to transition a school towards networked individualized learning in a school environment. It's silly that everyone in elementary schools has to take the same language simply because there is only one foreign language teacher. Instead of a Spanish teacher you would need to hire multi-lingual specialists who are able to monitor langauge acquisition. Cool future!
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 09 Dec 11
     
    "The teachers that were involved said that if every kid had their own computer, we could do amazing things". It would be interesting to know if the teachers presented some concrete ideas of 'amazing things'. It would also be interesting to know whether they have a bank of spare laptops to loan to the students while the defective ones are getting fixed. I have a feeling that in the not-so-distant future the choice between a tablet and a computer may become a moot point. The hardware that powers a MacBook Air and iPad is very similar. We have laptops that double as tablets and tablets that are paired with a keyboard to be used as a laptop. Eventually these two will merge.
  • Billie Fitzpatrick on 19 Dec 11
     
    Great overview of the issues -- I agree with Kasthuri -- I think the issue will become moot
Andrea Bush

ReadSpeak - 0 views

www.readspeak.com/...ReadSpeak.pdf

technology learning

shared by Andrea Bush on 28 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Andrea Bush on 28 Oct 12
     
    ReadSpeak, is an emerging technology in language learning. Innovative captioning can make initial language acquisition and ESL easier.
Andrea Bush

Speech Perception and Reading: Two Parallel Modes of Understanding Language and - 1 views

www.jstor.org/...amerjpsyc.125.3.0307

shared by Andrea Bush on 22 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Andrea Bush on 22 Oct 12
     
    This article relating to speech and literacy discusses the possibility of an interactive system, Technology Assisted Reading Acquisition, to allow children to acquire literacy naturally as opposed to the traditional way of "teaching" reading.
Chris McEnroe

How to Rescue Education Reform - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...o-rescue-education-reform.html

shared by Chris McEnroe on 06 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • No Child Left Behind also let states use statistical gimmicks to report performance
  • ” federal financing should be conditioned on truth in advertisin
  • To shed light on equity and cost-effectiveness, states should be required to report school- and district-level spending; the resources students receive should be disclosed, not only their achievement.
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  • efforts to reduce inequities have too often led to onerous and counterproductive micromanagement.
  • it comes to brain science, language acquisition or the impact of computer-assisted tutoring, federal financing for reliable research is essential. 
  • , competitive federal grants that support innovation while providing political cover for school boards, union leaders and others to throw off anachronistic routines.
  • , dictates from Congress turn into gobbledygook as they travel from the Education Department to state education agencies and then to local school districts
  • it’s not surprising that well-intentioned demands for “bold” federal action on school improvement have a history of misfiring. They stifle problem-solving, encourage bureaucratic blame avoidance and often do more harm than good.
  • Chris McEnroe on 06 Dec 11
     
    The headline promises more than the article delivers. It mainly identifies the limited effectiveness that the federal government can have. There are no specific "how to's" here and no mention of technology whatsoever, perhaps because that would be too specific a focus for the scope of the article. These are prominent figures in a prominent publication having a conversation that could have taken place in 1980. How do we change that? The absence of real civic engagement on issues about education is the missing link in education reform. I wonder if we can organize public discourse on the internet more effectively to have formal impact on civic activism and administration.
Chris Johnson

Social Impact Games (Entertaining Games with Non-Entertainment Goals) - 1 views

www.socialimpactgames.com

education educational_technology learning games software database

shared by Chris Johnson on 05 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Chris Johnson on 05 Sep 09
     
    This site lists educational games by category. There is no feed for updates (at least, I haven't found one) and games listed vary greatly in quality and educational merit. The site is hard to navigate due to poor design and doesn't seem to update very frequently
  • Benjamin Berte on 06 Sep 09
     
    Cool Site! What an easy way to see what has been explored and was in the works. It seemed as though Health and Language acquisition were big topics.
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