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Kathy Malsbenden

Thinking Blocks Math Models - 0 views

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shared by Kathy Malsbenden on 27 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Kathy Malsbenden on 27 Oct 10
     
    Thinking Blocks is an engaging, interactive math tool developed by classroom teachers to help students learn how to solve multistep word problems.
Deven Black

Changing Education Paradigms RSA Animate - 0 views

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  • Deven Black on 13 Nov 10
     
    Sir Ken Robinson talks about how education needs to change to preserve divergent thinking and creativity instead of destroying it.
Patti Porto

Digital Storytelling with the iPad - 12 views

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shared by Patti Porto on 17 Sep 12 - Cached
  • Patti Porto on 17 Sep 12
     
    Digital Storytelling can transform your students' writing into a visual masterpiece that is filled with voice and emotion, while enhancing critical thinking skills. The iPad takes digital storytelling to a new level by making the process easier, and ev
Tero Toivanen

New Nicaraguan sign language shows how language affects thought | Not Exactly Rocket Sc... - 2 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 27 Jun 10 - Cached
  • In the 1970s, a group of deaf Nicaraguan schoolchildren invented a new language.
  • It was the first time that deaf people from all over the country could gather in large numbers and through their interactions – in the schoolyard and the bus – Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) spontaneously came into being.
  • NSL is not a direct translation of Spanish – it is a language in its own right, complete with its own grammar and vocabulary.
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  • Its child inventors created it naturally by combining and adding to gestures that they had used at home. Gradually, the language became more regular, more complex and faster. Ever since, NSL has been a goldmine for scientists, providing an unparalleled opportunity to study the emergence of a new language.
  • those who learned NSL before it developed specific gestures for left and right perform more poorly on a spatial awareness test than children who grew up knowing how to sign those terms.
  • The idea that language affects thought isn’t new. It’s encapsulated by the ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’, which suggests that differences in the languages we speak affect the way we think and behave.
  • Tero Toivanen on 27 Jun 10
     
    "...as human language envolved, our mental ablities became increasingly entwined with linguistic devices."
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