The debate over how we read, perpetuated largely by media insiders, is starting to seem like little more than a distraction from the real problem: We have access to more information than ever, yet we do not know what to do with it. We are desperately information-illiterate.
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Social Media's Effect on Learning - Digits - WSJ - 0 views
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WSJ summary of a study on social media and learning. Showed that children may understand sounds of languages more than with traditional learning because of interaction with media.
Top 10 Language Learning Blogs 2009 - bab.la & Lexiophiles - 0 views
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Top 100 Language Learning blogs - nice resources for developing your PLN.
Information Overload - 0 views
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What matters is not that we are readers, but that we are critical readers.
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Chronicle of Higher Education (Sept. 19, 2008): “Talk of a ‘digital generation’ or people who are ‘born digital’ willfully ignores the vast range of skills, knowledge, and experience of many segments of society. . . . The ethnic, national, gender, and class biases of any sort of generation talk are troubling.”
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Free Tools For Teachers - 0 views
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Links to free tools for teachers
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Alyssa Ruesch
I'm a Teaching Specialist in the Minnesota English Language Program at the University of Minnesota.