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qkirkpatrick

Foreign language learning 'declining rapidly' in Wales - BBC News - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...uk-wales-32932367

language WOK knowledge

shared by qkirkpatrick on 03 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • Modern foreign language learning in secondary schools in Wales is "declining rapidly" according to a major study
  • The education minister has now announced "a radical and new approach" including schools which will be centres of excellence.
  • In 2005, 12,826 children studied a language at GCSE, but by 2014 the number had fallen by a third to 8,601.
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  • Although there has been a decline in the study of foreign languages in other parts of the UK, England and Scotland have both introduced policies to increase the provision.
  • "We're having to work much harder to make it more fun, desirable - they don't see languages as being as important as the core subjects and I don't think that schools do generally either with literacy, numeracy and science seen as more important over subjects like language
  • qkirkpatrick on 03 Jun 15
     
    How can decline in learning foreign languages affect how we obtain knowledge?
Javier E

Roots of Memory Aren't Fully Developed Until Adulthood - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...06memory.html

memory brain science children adolescent

shared by Javier E on 10 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Although memory performance generally improved with age, the ability to trace the source of a memory — evaluated by the second test — was particularly weak in children. Adolescents and adults performed equally well, but with a significant difference.
  • The participants wore electroencephalogram caps that measured their neural activity. Only adults showed a sophisticated pattern of activity when they were retrieving source memory information
  • when children and adolescents are asked to testify, the reliability of their source memory — for example, recalling the first time a certain person was encountered, and where — should be carefully questioned.
  • Richard Monari on 11 Sep 11
     
    That's insane!! Now, when the author says " the ability to remember the origin of memories," is he referring to the actual experience when information was received and the context it was in, or just the manner that the information was received, like the WOK? I'm still not clear on that.
katedriscoll

History | TOKTalk.net - 0 views

www.toktalk.net/history

shared by katedriscoll on 25 Mar 21 - No Cached
  • inking the different Areas of Knowledge (AOK) with different Ways of Knowing (WOK) can be quite challenging at times. I now attempted to link History with Language, Logics, Emotion and Sense Perception.
  • Does the way (the language) that certain historical events are presented in history books influence the way that the reader understands these events? What role does loaded language play when talking about historical events? What role do connotation and denotation play when talking about historical events? How can language introduce bias into historical accounts? How does language help or hinder the interpretation of historical facts?
  • recently read an interesting poem by the German poet and playwright Berthold Brecht – a poem which got me thinking. You see, this is one of the TOK illnesses, you start to see TOK everywhere, and also in poetry. Continue reading »
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