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Krithika Jagannath

AVID | Decades of College Dreams - 1 views

www.avid.org

avid education learning

shared by Krithika Jagannath on 15 Sep 13 - Cached
  • Krithika Jagannath on 15 Sep 13
     
    Comment: As we're talking about the Common Core Standards, this is a concept which aligns itself to the CCSS. I volunteered through a non-profit organization this summer to teach AVID classes concepts about the world of work, entrepreneurship and personal finances. (AVID is advancement via Individualistic Determination) 
Junjie Liu

MIT Challenge--Scott Young - 1 views

www.scotthyoung.com/...mit-challenge

MIT_OCW MOOC

shared by Junjie Liu on 08 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Junjie Liu on 08 Nov 12
     
    Scott Young, a recent university graduate, writer, programmer, traveler and avid reader of interesting things, decided to finish MIT's entire 4-year computer science program within 12 months with MIT OpenCourseWare.
Eric Kattwinkel

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...29language-t.html

shared by Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10 - Cached
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Old ideas about language affecting thinking have been discredited, but more recent research has revived the idea, with important differences.
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      It's not that features of our language prevent or allow certain kinds of thinking; it's that they "oblige" us to consider some things and not others, thereby causing us to develop certain "habits" in how we think.
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Compare different language requirements of making a simple statement ("I had dinner with a neighbor last night"): in French you have to reveal the gender of the neighbor, but in English  you don't; in English you have to reveal when the dinner happened; not so in Chinese.
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Research shows that when languages have different genders for the same objects, speakers of those language think differently about those same objects -- and this can affect their ability to remember those objects. (no reference?)
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      How would the habits of mind of a speaker of a geographic-based language be manifest in the way that person learns/remembers/teaches? How do speakers of egocentric languages learn/teach/remember differently?
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Language even affects our perception and experience of color: "Our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue."
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Does an avid user of social media, who makes subtle distinctions among different ways to post something (comment, like, message, poke, etc.), have different habits of mind that affect how he/she relates to other people and/or incoming information?
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Area for potential study?: how to measure the ways habits of mind affect our intuitive/emotional/impulse behavior.
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Very intesting article about how our language affects the way we think. People who speak different languages adopt different "habits of mind" from an early age, and those habits can affect they way they experience the world. Especially fascinating is the discussion (2/3 of the way down) of languages that use a geographical, rather than egotistical, method for describing direction and relative position. (For example, the cup is resting on the north side of the west table in the southern room of the house.) How would a person with this type of view of the world experience a virtual environment? Also interesting implications for kids growing up with social media. Do new technologies impart habits of mind that affect the way kids learn?
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