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Martin Burrett

ESL Printables - 1 views

www.eslprintables.com

worksheets printables ESL EAL English resources powerpoint

shared by Martin Burrett on 15 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 15 Oct 11
     
    An amazing user generated ESL resources site. Find and download resources for any English language lesson - PowerPoints, lesson plans, flashcards and much more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English+As+An+Additional+Language
Martin Burrett

TalkTyper - 11 views

talktyper.com

speech voice voice to text speech to text mfl English French German Spanish Italian Mandarin Chinese Japanese speech recognition

shared by Martin Burrett on 02 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 02 Jul 12
     
    A useful site that allows users to dictate and generate text. A great resource for children with writing difficulties to get their ideas written quickly. It works with a range of languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and more. For mistakes, the site offers alternative words with similar pronunciation. Only works with Chrome. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Martin Burrett

Improving SPAG for All Ages - 1 views

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spelling grammar punctuation SPaG

shared by Martin Burrett on 17 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 17 Jan 18
     
    "The teaching of grammar has changed completely in a generation. While formal teaching of spelling and punctuation have been a mainstay of the classroom, just a few decades ago there was very little teaching of grammar. Many pupils formally encountered grammar through the study of other languages. Now SPaG takes up a large part of the primary curriculum, but have secondary colleagues noticed a difference? In this session we are discussion how to improve SPaG skills and usage at all levels of schooling and beyond."
Kevin Crouch

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages - 6 views

www.makebeliefscomix.com/Diagram

comics language literacy digital storytelling

shared by Kevin Crouch on 01 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Kevin Crouch on 01 Jun 10
     
    A simple comic strip builder with support for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Latin. Finished strips can either be printed or sent via email to the teacher. Great for specific language or literacy activities.
Kristyn Paul

http://xtranormal.com - 11 views

Fun, free online movie making site: - Students select the characters, setting and language for the digitised speech (European languages male & female voices + Japanese) and type a dialogue (or cut ...

languages writing web2.0 movies

started by Kristyn Paul on 30 Apr 09 no follow-up yet
Barbara Lindsey

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

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language learning brain research advocacy

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 26 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • 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.
Joel Bennett

Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What? - 0 views

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Development WebDesign SocialNetworking Twitter Research SocialMedia

shared by Joel Bennett on 18 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Social media is driven by another buzzword: "user-generated content" or content that is contributed by participants rather than editors.
  • I'm going to share my research in three acts: 1) How did social media - and social network sites in particular - gain traction in the US? And how should we think about network effects? 2) What are some core differences between how teens leverage social media and how adults engage with these same tools? 3) How is social media reconfiguring social infrastructure and where is all of this going?
  • Facebook was narrated as the "safe" alternative and, in the 2006-2007 school year, a split amongst American teens occurred. Those college-bound kids from wealthier or upwardly mobile backgrounds flocked to Facebook while teens from urban or less economically privileged backgrounds rejected the transition and opted to stay with MySpace while simultaneously rejecting the fears brought on by American media. Many kids were caught in the middle and opted to use both, but the division that occurred resembles the same "jocks and burnouts" narrative that shaped American schools in the 1980s.
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  • over 35% of American adults have a profile on a social network site
  • many adults have jumped in, but what they are doing there is often very different than what young people are doing.
  • Teens are much more motivated to talk only with their friends and they learned a harsh lesson with social network sites. Even if they are just trying to talk to their friends, those who hold power over them are going to access everything they wrote if it's in public
  • while you can replicate a conversation, it's much easier to alter what's been said than to confirm that it's an accurate portrayal of the original conversation.
  • 1. Invisible Audiences. We are used to being able to assess the people around us when we're speaking. We adjust what we're saying to account for the audience. Social media introduces all sorts of invisible audiences.
  • Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it's often difficult to figure out what's appropriate
  • Joel Bennett on 18 Mar 09
     
    1) How did social media - and social network sites in particular - gain traction in the US? And how should we think about network effects? 2) What are some core differences between how teens leverage social media and how adults engage with these same tools? 3) How is social media reconfiguring social infrastructure and where is all of this going?
Stéphane Métral

YoutubeReloaded | Free Youtube Embeddable Playlist Generator - 0 views

www.youtubereloaded.com

youtube video

shared by Stéphane Métral on 03 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Stéphane Métral on 03 Mar 09
     
    YoutubeReloaded creates an embeddable playlist that can be added to any website. Simply choose a playlist type to create your free youtube playlist.
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