Thinking skills resources - Nottinghamshire County Council - 5 views
Thinking Skills handout - 14 views
Visible Thinking - 12 views
Brains benefit from multilingualism - 8 views
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"For a considerable time already there has been discussion within scientific circles about whether knowing and using multiple languages could possibly have positive effects on the human brain and thinking. There have been a number of international studies on the subject, which indicate that the ability to use more than one language brings an individual a considerable advantage."
Solo taxonomy - Google Search - 1 views
News: The Web of Babel - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views
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Some adventurous professors have used Twitter as a teaching tool for at least a few years. At a presentation at Educause in 2009, W. Gardner Campbell, director of the academy of teaching and learning at Baylor University, extolled the virtues of allowing students to pose questions to the professor and each other — an important part of the thinking and learning process — without having to raise their hands to do so immediately and aloud. And in November, a group of professors published a scientific paper suggesting that bringing Twitter into the learning process might boost student engagement and performance.
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But while Lomicka and her tech-forward peers are not advocating that every college go the way of Chapel Hill, they are finding out that some relatively novel teaching technologies that are used by academics of all stripes, such as Twitter and iTunes U, are particularly useful for teaching languages.
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At Emory University, language instructional content is far and away the biggest export of its public repository on iTunes U, where visitors from around the world have downloaded more than 10 million files since Emory opened the site in 2007.
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The Ten Week Journey - 3 views
How many times have I heard someone say, "I would love to learn another language." But next to none of those I have heard make such a statement are doing anything about it. A quote I recently cam...
Presentation Zen: 7 Japanese aesthetic principles to change your thinking - 2 views
Critical Thinking - 0 views
Netvibes.com in the classroom | The Thinking Stick - 0 views
SimplyBox - Think Inside the Box - 0 views
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.
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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.
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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.
Vancouver Law Librarian Blog: Highlights of SLA 2009: Critical Thinking - 0 views
Stages of PLN adoption | The Thinking Stick - 0 views
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