Skip to main content

Home/ Groups/ Special Ed in the 21st Century
karen Janowski

Diigo and Delicious « Involvement and Interactivity in Teaching - 1 views

  •  
    comparison of features of Diigo over Delicious, confirms superiority of diigo with descriptions of new features
Teresa Ilgunas

My Home - Practice speaking English while you watch great videos - EnglishCentral.com - 0 views

  •  
    Wonderful video clips where students can record and practice their speaking. Good for improving literacy as well as English speaking skills. Any student who does not like reading aloud would enjoy! Latest: a clip from Despicable Me!
Tero Toivanen

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

  • 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.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • 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.
  •  
    "...as human language envolved, our mental ablities became increasingly entwined with linguistic devices."
Amanda Kenuam

Start Your Engines and Get Ready to Learn! | SPED / ESOL - 0 views

  •  
    "special needs, students, vocabulary, lessons, interactive, flashcards, resources, parts of a car"
« First ‹ Previous 441 - 460 of 955 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page