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Keri-Lee Beasley

Have you heard of the MFL Twitterati? « Network for Languages London - 0 views

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Twitter network networking languages literacy

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 08 Jan 13
     
    MFL (Modern Foreign Languages) twitterati - lots of great ideas for languages and language teaching. 
Mary van der Heijden

languages of the world - Google Search - 0 views

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  • Mary van der Heijden on 08 Feb 13
     
    line images for languages
Katie Day

8 Must-Have Google Chrome Apps For Students | Edudemic - 1 views

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google apps chrome students productivity

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  • Katie Day on 03 Aug 12
     
    "Below are some of the top web apps for students looking for helpful tools to focus while online, as selected by Google's Chrome Web Apps Guru, Rahul Roy-Chowdhury. StayFocusd - StayFocusd is a productivity extension that helps you focus on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites.  You can restrict entire sites or just parts of them for as long or short of a time as necessary. Todo.ly- Todo.ly is an intuitive and easy to use online to-do list and task manager. It helps you get organized and get things done by organizing your tasks into projects and subprojects, adding customized icons and labels, and assigning due dates to your tasks. Read Later Fast - This app lets you save pages to read later - online or offline, and fast. All you have to do is right click and save the page for later to avoid having too many open tabs on your browser. Write Space - Write Space is a customizable, full-screen text editor that lives in your browser. It is designed to minimize the distractions that come between you and your writing.  This app also auto saves your work and works offline. StudyStack - StudyStack helps students memorize anything with millions of flashcards that have already been added to the site or the ability to create your own.  There are dozens of flashcard categories including foreign languages, math, LSAT and GRE. Graph.tk - An app for math majors, Graph.tk is an app that brings the graphing capabilities of your calculator to the browser. It's easy to use and good for plotting graphs based on equations. WordReference - For anyone taking a foreign language course or studying abroad, this extension gets you the translations you need in a fast and easy way.  Since it's an extension and placed right next to the address bar, you don't even have to leave the site you're on for a quick translation. BONUS APP: Panic Button - Ok, this app won't help you pass your class, but it might just come in handy during
Keri-Lee Beasley

Using Technology to Break the Speed Barrier of Reading - Scientific American - 0 views

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visual_literacy literacy technology comprehension reading

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 12 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Unfortunately, the system of reading we inherited from the ancient scribes —the method of reading you are most likely using right now — has been fundamentally shaped by engineering constraints that were relevant in centuries past, but no longer appropriate in our information age.
  • search for innovative engineering solutions aimed at making reading more efficient and effective for more people
  • But then, by chance, I discovered that when I used the small screen of a smartphone to read my scientific papers required for work, I was able to read with much greater facility and ease.
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  • hen, in a comprehensive study of over 100 high school students with dyslexia done in 2013, using techniques that included eye tracking, we were able to confirm that the shortened line formats produced a benefit for many who otherwise struggled with reading.
  • For example, Marco Zorzi and his colleagues in Italy and France showed in 2012 that when letter spacing is increased to reduce crowding, children with dyslexia read more effectively.
  • A clever web application called Beeline Reader, developed by Nick Lum, a lawyer from San Francisco, may accomplish something similar using colors to guide the reader’s attention forward along the line.  Beeline does this by washing each line of text in a color gradient, to create text that looks a bit like a tie-dyed tee-shirt.
  • one aims to increase the throughput of the brain’s reading buffers by changing their capacity for information processing, while the other seeks to activate alternate channels for reading that will allow information to be processed in parallel, and thereby increase the capacity of the language processing able to be performed during reading. 
  • The brain is said to be plastic, meaning that it is possible to change its abilities.
  • people can be taught to roughly double their reading speed, without compromising comprehension.
  • Consider that we process language, first and foremost, through speech. And yet, in the traditional design of reading we are forced to read using our eyes. Even though the brain already includes a fully developed auditory pathway for language, the traditional design for reading makes little use of the auditory processing capabilities of the brain
  • While the visual pathways are being strained to capacity by reading, the auditory network for language remains relatively under-utilized.
  • Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 12 Sep 15
     
    "Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper."
Mary van der Heijden

Learn 37 Languages for Free: Spanish, French, Mandarin, German, etc. | Open Culture - 1 views

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language lessons learning foreign

shared by Mary van der Heijden on 08 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Mary van der Heijden on 08 Apr 11
     
    Huge range of resources for your own learning of a language
Sean McHugh

How Spelling Keeps Kids From Learning - The Atlantic - 0 views

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spelling

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  • It’s like making children from around the world complete an obstacle course to fully participate in society but requiring the English-speaking participants to wear blindfolds
  • Unlike many other languages, English spelling was never reformed to eliminate the incongruities. In a sense, English speakers now talk in one language but write a different one
  • By contrast, languages such as Finnish and Korean have very regular spelling systems; rules govern the way words are written, with few exceptions. Finnish also has the added bonus of a nearly one-to-one correspondence between sounds and letters, meaning fewer rules to learn. So after Finnish children learn their alphabet, learning to read is pretty straightforward—they can read well within three months of starting formal learning, Bell says. And it’s not just Finnish- and Korean-speaking children who are at a significant advantage: A 2003 study found that English-speaking children typically needed about three years to master the basics of reading and writing, whereas their counterparts in most European countries needed a year or less.
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  • Schools have consequently endeavored to teach children how to read and write at younger and younger ages, but Bell says that’s problematic because children mature and learn at very different rates. It also steals time away from more developmentally appropriate activities for young children.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Icon Library | PICOL - Pictorial Communication Language - Icons & Pictorgrams - Pixel &... - 0 views

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icons graphics pictures visual_literacy visualization infographics technology

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 05 Nov 12 - Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 05 Nov 12
     
    Pictorial Communication Language. Icons & Pictures that explain ideas. Great for simple presentations and for infographics. Similar to the Noun Project
Keri-Lee Beasley

Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom: - 1 views

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blog languages learning technology howto literacy

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 08 Jan 13 - Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 08 Jan 13
     
    blog for integrating ICT into Modern Foreign Languages via @benmorgan68
Mary van der Heijden

Languages Matter: International Mother Language Day - YouTube - 0 views

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international mother language

shared by Mary van der Heijden on 16 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Mary van der Heijden on 16 Feb 13
     
    the first part not so relevant for PS children but the rest is fine, showing the reason for IMLD
Wendy Liao

Zhonghuayuwen 中华语文知识库 (Chinese Language only) - 1 views

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Chinese Language Chinese Language Chinese Culture

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  • Wendy Liao on 08 Feb 12
     
    中华语文知识库
Katie Day

News: What Students Don't Know - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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universities information_literacy teaching

shared by Katie Day on 05 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • The prevalence of Google in student research is well-documented, but the Illinois researchers found something they did not expect: students were not very good at using Google. They were basically clueless about the logic underlying how the search engine organizes and displays its results. Consequently, the students did not know how to build a search that would return good sources. (For instance, limiting a search to news articles, or querying specific databases such as Google Book Search or Google Scholar.)
  • In other words: Today’s college students might have grown up with the language of the information age, but they do not necessarily know the grammar.
  • Librarians often have to walk that line between giving a person a fish and teaching her how to fish, proverbially speaking, says Thill. And the answer can rightly vary based on how quickly she needs a fish, whether she has the skills and coordination to competently wield a pole, and whether her ultimate goal is to become a master angler.
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  • “It’s not about teaching shortcuts, it’s about teaching them not to take the long way to a goal,” says Elisa Addlesperger, a reference and instruction librarian at DePaul. “They’re taking very long, circuitous routes to their goals.… I think it embitters them and makes them hate learning.” Teaching efficiency is not a compromise of librarianship, adds Jagman; it is a value.
  • Katie Day on 05 Sep 11
     
    results of an ethnographic study of college students and their relationship with libraries and level of information literacy...  Quote: "In other words: Today's college students might have grown up with the language of the information age, but they do not necessarily know the grammar."
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