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Dugg Lowe

Critical Essay -- Art and Science of Analysis - 0 views

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  • Dugg Lowe on 11 Jul 08
     
    Is critical essay writing art or science? It's both.
Isabelle Jones

Obama Knocks Critics Of Language Comments, Democrat Dismisses Conservative Critics Of H... - 0 views

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    Languages are a political football in many different ways
Maggie Verster

Best Sites to Find Public Domain Images and Sounds for Student Projects | audio public-... - 0 views

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  • Maggie Verster on 12 Jun 09
     
    Now that more and more classrooms are publishing student work for digital storytelling, podcasting, or through wikis and blogs it is becoming increasingly critical students follow the copyright and fair use guidelines. To help you and your students, I've created another freebie post - free images and sounds for student projects. Yes, there are multiple websites out there for public domain images and sounds, but I tried to pull those that are safe for student searching. You will find glorious photo landscapes, character illustrations of fairy tale characters, tornado sound effects, and more.
Maggie Verster

Novelinks: Great resource for school about authors and reading - 0 views

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  • Maggie Verster on 20 May 09
     
    Novelinks is maintained by the Education section of the English Department at Brigham Young University. Our goal is to provide educators with quality teaching materials that will enhance classroom instruction for a wide variety of commonly taught novels in middle through secondary schools. Novelinks includes online as well as printed references to biographical, historical and critical insights on authors and their works. We also offer reading strategies and units for specific novels under the heading reading resources.
International School of Central Switzerland

Are you ready to play five card flickr? - 5 views

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  • International School of Central Switzerland on 25 Oct 09
     
    Five Card Flickr "This quasi experimental web site is designed to foster visual thinking. It is based completely, or more loosely... copied, from the Five Card Nancy game devised by comics guru Scott McCloud and the nifty web version at 741.5 Comics. However, rather than drawing from a hand of randomly chosen panels of the nancy comic, my version draws upon collections of photos. You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selextion of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures. When you are done, you the option to save the story so you can put a link in your resume or send to your Mom (she pay print it out and tape it to the fridge, or she may criticize your creativity, your mileage and mom may vary)."
shaik pasha

Proven answers to tough job interview questions - 1 views

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    Job interview? How to answer any question an interviewer could possibly throw at you! Arm yourself with these proven behavioral interview answers! Use them as templates to "Package & Spin" your work experience so you can demonstrate your critical thinking skills, be more likeable, increase your confidence, uncover the interviewer's hidden needs, and tell them exactly what they want to hear - So You Get Hired!
Barbara Lindsey

Education Week: Science Grows on Acquiring New Language - 6 views

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  • For example, when babies born to native-English-speaking parents played three times a week during that window with a native-Mandarin-speaking tutor, at 12 months, they had progressed in their ability to recognize both English and Mandarin sounds, rather than starting to retrench in the non-native language. By contrast, children exposed only to audio or video recordings of native speakers showed no change in their language trajectory. Brain-imaging of the same children backed up the results of test-based measures of language specialization.
  • The research may not immediately translate into a new language arts curriculum, but it has already deepened the evidence for something most educators believe instinctively: Social engagement, particularly with speakers of multiple languages, is critical to language learning.
  • “The key to that series of studies is exposure and live interactions with native speakers,” Ms. Lebedeva said. “The interactions need to be naturalistic: eye contact, gestures, exaggerated phonemes.”
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  • “Human brains are wired to learn best in social interactions, whether that learning is about language or problem-solving or emotion,” Ms. Lebedeva said, “but language is such a ubiquitous human behavior that studying it gives us an example of how more general learning takes place.”
  • at the science-oriented Ultimate Block Party held in New York City this month, children of different backgrounds played games in which they were required to sort toys either by shape or color, based on a rule indicated by changing flashcards. A child sorting blue and yellow ducks and trucks by shape, say, might suddenly have to switch to sorting them by color. The field games exemplified research findings that bilingual children have greater cognitive flexibility than monolingual children. That is, they can adapt better than monolingual children to changes in rules—What criteria do I use to sort?—and close out mental distractions—It doesn’t matter that some blue items are ducks and some are trucks.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 26 Oct 10
     
    researchers long thought the window for learning a new language shrinks rapidly after age 7 and closes almost entirely after puberty. Yet interdisciplinary research conducted over the past five years at the University of Washington, Pennsylvania State University, and other colleges suggest that the time frame may be more flexible than first thought and that students who learn additional languages become more adaptable in other types of learning, too.
Dugg Lowe

How to Write a Feedback Essay - 0 views

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    An outlined how-to article on feedback essay writing by an English teacher.
James OReilly

ScienceDirect - Current Biology : Cultural Confusions Show that Facial Expressions Are ... - 0 views

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  • Central to all human interaction is the mutual understanding of emotions
  • achieved primarily by a set of biologically rooted social signals evolved for this purpose—facial expressions of emotion
  • Rather than distributing their fixations evenly across the face as Westerners do, Eastern observers persistently fixate the eye region
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  • Our results question the universality of human facial expressions of emotion, highlighting their true complexity, with critical consequences for cross-cultural communication and globalization.
Andrew Jeppesen

Building Peace - Thoughts on Modern Conflict - 0 views

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  • This is the crux: foreign language ability is not just about converting information from one format to another. It's about human relationships.
  • A few years ago, while General Abizaid was still CENTCOM commander, I flew a C-17 into Cairo to pick him up after a meeting. While I sat on the parking ramp with my engines running, knocking out checklists for the next takeoff, I looked out the window and saw General Abizaid moving among a circle of grinning Egyptian military officers. He was shaking hands, talking, doing the kinds of things a combatant commander is supposed to do: keeping our alliances strong at a time when the situation in Iraq was critical. Because he is fluent in Arabic, I presume he was doing at least some of this in Arabic. I remember thinking, Wow. This is why language matters.
  • Language is extremely hard. We need as many language solutions as we can get, and technology certainly can and should help fill the gap. But no matter how good the technology gets, no matter how prevalent English becomes, old-fashioned speaking of a foreign language still matters.
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