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Big Thinkers on Education | Edutopia - 9 views

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Kre Rad on 06 Apr 13

Big Thinkers on Education - on Edutopia

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How Global Language Learning Gives Students the Edge | Edutopia - 9 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 02 Mar 10 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 02 Mar 10

In fact, some of the greatest obstacles to world-language education are parents who recall their own miserable experiences. Many Americans were introduced to foreign languages in middle school or high school classes that emphasized conjugation of verbs and other dull grammatical tasks rather than relevant communication skills. "Language teaching in the U.S. has been ineffective," Stewart says. "We start it at the wrong age. Teacher skills are not great. There's a focus on grammar and translation." The result: "Adults who took three years of French don't speak a word," she states.\nBut the trend toward competency and away from conjugation is helping create a new generation of language learners, one that gains real-world skills with many practical applications.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">In fact, some of the greatest obstacles to world-language education are parents who recall their own miserable experiences. Many Americans were introduced to foreign languages in middle school or high school classes that emphasized conjugation of verbs and other dull grammatical tasks rather than relevant communication skills. "Language teaching in the U.S. has been ineffective," Stewart says. "We start it at the wrong age. Teacher skills are not great. There's a focus on grammar and translation." The result: "Adults who took three years of French don't speak a word," she states.\nBut the trend toward competency and away from conjugation is helping create a new generation of language learners, one that gains real-world skills with many practical applications.</div>

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Patrick Higgins on 02 Mar 10

the key here lies in the paragraph I clipped: the focus should be on competency rather than on conjugation.

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How to Connect Your Foreign Language Students with the World | Edutopia - 11 views

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Increase Student Engagement by Getting Rid of Textbooks - 8 views

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The students do not learn "better" because my life as a teacher is "easier." Convenience is not a form of effective pedagogy. My students learn better when they take the active role in finding and choosing texts, asking their own questions, and creating their own projects. In my 9th grade West Civ class, this means students learn directly from primary sources (see the Internet History Sourcebook, the Perseus Project, the Library of Congress's 'Teaching with Primary Sources' project, and the Internet Archive) without the filter of a textbook middleman. It means that they keep daily blogs full of questions and reflections on our learning and that they engage with our crowdsourced Q&A wiki.
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Cindy Marston on 06 Jun 11

8/5/10 article in Edutopia about no need for textbooks

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