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Lauren Gould

U.S. State Department Unveils Online Game, and Web Site, to Teach English - Digital Edu... - 5 views

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  • Lauren Gould on 20 Dec 12
     
    U.S. State Department Unveils Online Game, and Web Site, to Teach English -- 3D video game designed to help students abroad acquire English language skills
Tomoko Matsukawa

BBC News - Learn English online: How the internet is changing language - 5 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...magazine-20332763

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 15 Dec 12
     
    "Language online is now a zero sum game."
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  • Hongge Ren on 16 Dec 12
     
    English is not alone. Chinese is integrating different languages and inventing new words everyday, and I think Japanese has done this for centuries, all parts of globalization.
  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 16 Dec 12
     
    True. But japanese expansion was maybe not too much due o the power of internet as much as english. Curious about Chinese given there are already so many dialects.
  • Jennifer Bartecchi on 17 Dec 12
     
    This is an interesting perspective, thanks for sharing. I was speaking with some friends from Germany and Spain, who explained that English has become much more motivating due to its pervasive existence online. However, mandarin is preferential to higher SES families who want their children to excel in business.
Maura Wolk

Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything - 2 views

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english grammar

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  • Maura Wolk on 01 Oct 10
     
    For all you English teachers out there who die a little bit inside every time you read shortcut language- I wish you a happy Friday.
Ayelet R

Immigrant Parents Rely On Kids For Help Online : NPR - 1 views

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immigrant parents online language

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  • Ayelet R on 16 Oct 11
     
    Children of non-English speaking parents help them find information online. The article touches on why Google hasn't been able to overcome this problem.
  • Maung Nyeu on 16 Oct 11
     
    I've observed immigrant parents, who speak little or no English, turn to kids for weather information online.
Maung Nyeu

CT Innovators Reunion: Where Are They Now? -- Campus Technology - 2 views

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Emerging Technology technology education learning t561 online

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  • Maung Nyeu on 27 Dec 11
     
    Mobile learning in some universities making gradually deeper impact. Through mobile learning the classrooms are becoming less about discovering information and more about collboration and knowledge creation. "Increasingly, this is just the way we do things" - Bill Rankin, director of mobile learning and an English professor.
Benjamin Berte

U.S. Education Secretary Briefs Stakeholders on 'Investing in Innovation Fund' at... | ... - 0 views

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Arne Duncan Investing in Innovation ACT Rigor and Readiness

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  • "I want the Department to become an engine of innovation, not a compliance monitor," said Secretary Duncan. "We are looking to you - the districts and nonprofits - to unleash your creativity and build the next generation of education reform."
  • According to research conducted by ACT, currently, -- Fewer than 20 percent of 8th-grade students are on target for being college ready in all four core subject areas of English, math, reading, and science. -- Only 70 percent of ACT-tested 2009 high school graduates took a core curriculum. -- Only 23 percent of ACT-tested 2009 high school graduates were college ready in all four core subject areas of English, math, reading, and science.
  • "We are committed to ensuring that all students are college and career ready in achievement, psychosocial behavior, and career and educational planning," said Erickson. "Rigor & Readiness will also create and advance school change, and build and support high-achieving, self-sustaining schools within scalable, replicable systems.
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  • A recording of Secretary Duncan's presentation is available at http://video.webexlivestream.com/events/webx001/31912/.
Eric Kattwinkel

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

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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?
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      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?
Sabita Verma

Video Games Win a Beachhead in the Classroom - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Sabita Verma on 02 Dec 10
     
    New York classroom where curriculum is entirely in video games. The program is called "Quest to Learn". Students learn math, english and other core subjects by playing multi user video games. The games are designed by learning games designers and are focused on problem solving.
Jason Outlaw

English-Teaching Robots To Terminate Jobs in South Korea - 0 views

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ESL Teaching Korea Technology Robots

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  • Jason Outlaw on 23 Nov 10
     
    Interesting article on robot-teachers in Korea. Let's say there are two scenarios: 1. Creating a technology that competes with non-consumption, and 2. Creating a technology that competes with human labor Does the nature of one's advocacy change? Should it? What if it isn't your job that is on the line? What if it is indeed your job? Does this think about you you frame your discourse surrounding such an emerging technology?
Stephen Bresnick

Video: An Automatic Text-To-Sign-Language Translation System | Popular Science - 0 views

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text-to-sign signing avatar UDL

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  • Stephen Bresnick on 10 Sep 11
     
    In the USDOE Educational Technology plan, Universal Design for Learning standards require that information be presented in a way that is accessible to people with disabilities such as sight or hearing impairment. I found this article about automatic text-to-sign avatar software that would seem to be a no-brainer for anybody who is creating an eLearning experience that is primarily text-based. We have text-to-speech, which is as easy as opening a document and having a robot read the text for you. I wonder if there are any text-to-sign avatars that are available in English.
Jennifer Hern

Essay - Is Technology Dumbing Down Japanese? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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teaching_with_technology handhelds foreign_language_learning

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  • A vertically written language seems to be becoming increasingly horizontal. Novels are being written and read on little screens. People have gotten so used to typing on computers that they can no longer write characters by hand. And English words continue to infiltrate the language.
  • Mizumura contends that the dominance of English, especially with the advent of the Internet, threatens to reduce all other national languages to mere “local” languages that are not taken seriously by scholars. The education system, she argues, doesn’t spend enough time teaching Japanese.
  • Jennifer Hern on 08 Nov 09
     
    Is foreign-language software and technology impacting how Japanese learn their own language and negatively impacting their national culture?
Benjamin Berte

50 Educational Apps for the iPod Touch | U Tech Tips - 1 views

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apps iPodtouch ipod iphone educational list 50

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  • Benjamin Berte on 05 Nov 09
     
    iPod touch, and most are usable with the iPhone as well, apps listed by subject matter. English, Math, Music...
Pearl Phaovisaid

Best Android apps for ESL students and learning English - 2 views

www.androidauthority.com/pps-esl-learning-english-95816

EDC public Android apps education learning ESL technology

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  • Pearl Phaovisaid on 19 Sep 12
     
    Although most apps are geared toward the iPad, here are some for Android OS, which could be a more economical alternative for schools and consumers.
  • Pearl Phaovisaid on 19 Sep 12
     
    For EDC research group
Niko Cunningham

World's Largest English Department - 1 views

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educational_technology emerging technology social ning PD

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  • Niko Cunningham on 01 Oct 09
     
    Imagine being a little middle-school basketball player, and getting a real email message from SHAQ. Thats what social networks are doing to allow novice teachers the ability to receive their most pressing questions answered by masters in their field.
Yang Jiang

Computers in China to have pre-installed Internet filter to protect minors_English_Xinhua - 1 views

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China Internet Green Dam Software Filter

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  • Yang Jiang on 03 Sep 10
     
    This is a hot topic in China last year that all computers, especially those for young kids, should be installed a filter to block unhealth contents. However, the policy turns out to be ineffective at all. At least from what I know, no one around me has actually installed the software to "protect" themselves.
Amanda Comperchio

Save the Words - 4 views

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Enlish language words

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  • Amanda Comperchio on 08 Sep 10
     
    This site might have some interesting application in a language arts or English class.
James Glanville

Learning: Engage and Empower | U.S. Department of Education - 4 views

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  • more flexible set of "educators," including teachers, parents, experts, and mentors outside the classroom.
    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 05 Sep 11
       
      This is an example of the promise of Tech in Teaching. It promotes the Psycho/Social pedogogical reality of the learner's sphere of influences into the vital center of our concept of school. To me, it transforms academic discourse into intentional design. Because school experience is so culturally endemic, this is a change in cultural self-concept.
  • The opportunity to harness this interest and access in the service of learning is huge.
    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 08 Sep 11
       
      This sentence makes me think of an explorer who has discovered a vast mineral deposit and is looking for capital investment. To persuade teachers, parents, and school boards the explorer will need to show tangible evidence that ". . . our education system [can leverage] technology to create learning experiences that mirror students' daily lives and the reality of their futures." The sixth grade teacher will need to be able to demonstrate to the parent of a student the tangible benefits of a technology infused paradigm.
  • The challenge for our education system is to leverage technology to create relevant learning experiences that mirror students' daily lives and the reality of their futures.
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  • large groups, small groups, and activities tailored to individual goals, needs, and interests.
  • What's worth knowing and being able to do?
  • English language arts, mathematics, sciences, social studies, history, art, or music, 21st-century competencies and expertise such as critical thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration, and multimedia communication should be woven into all content areas.
  • expert learners
  • "digital exclusion"
    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 08 Sep 11
       
      Isn't this just another iteration of the general disparity in all kinds of resource allocation? This could just as well be articulated by debilitating student/teacher rations, or text book availability, or the availability of paper, or breakfast, or heat in the he building?
  • School of One uses technology to develop a unique learning path for each student and to provide a significant portion of the instruction that is both individualized and differentiated
  • Advances in the learning sciences, including cognitive science, neuroscience, education, and social sciences, give us greater understanding of three connected types of human learning—factual knowledge, procedural knowledge, and motivational engagement.
    • James Glanville
      James Glanville on 09 Sep 11
       
      I'm interested in how our current understanding of how learning works can inform best practices for teaching, curriculum design, and supports for learning afforded by technology.
    • Erin Sisk
      Erin Sisk on 12 Sep 11
       
      I found the neuroscience discussion to be the most interesting part of the Learning section. It seems to me that the 21st century learner needs more emphasis on the "learning how" and the "learning why" and less focus on the "learning that." I think teaching information literacy (as described in the Learning section) is one of the most important kinds of procedural knowledge (learning how) students should master so they can access facts as they need them, and worry less about memorizing them.
  • James Glanville on 09 Sep 11
     
    "School of One uses technology to develop a unique learning path for each student and to provide a significant portion of the instruction that is both individualized and differentiated." I liked the definitions of individualized (pacing), differentiated (learning preferences/methods), and personalized (pacing, preferences, and content/objectives).
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