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Mysteries of vernacular: Earwig - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:31:34 -0400

TED-Ed brings us another awesome episode ofMysteries of Vernacular. In this episode they talk about...

languageek: Bilingualism in the Workplace: Advantages of...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:27:06 -0400

languageek:

Bilingualism in the Workplace: Advantages of Bilingualism - Found here.

Awesome French: Nouns which gender even confuses French people

Fri, 03 May 2013 13:01:55 -0400

Awesome French: Nouns which gender even confuses French people: awesomefrench: These are words...

world-shaker: Minute Hacks: 5 Things You Can Do With A USB...

Fri, 03 May 2013 12:59:21 -0400

world-shaker:

Minute Hacks: 5 Things You Can Do With A USB Thumb Drive

(by Hack College)

TED-Ed: Who invented writing? - Matthew Winkler

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:32:00 -0400

Mysteries of Vernacular While humans have been speaking for tens of thousands of years, writing has...

TED-Ed: Mysteries of vernacular: Noise - Jessica Oreck

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:27:00 -0400

Mysteries of Vernacular has become an office favourite here at GlobaNova. In this episode they...

28 Creative Ideas for Teaching with Twitter

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:43:22 -0400

28 Creative Ideas for Teaching with Twitter: world-shaker: A lot of oldies, but some fresh ideas as...

world-shaker: 30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:58:12 -0400

world-shaker:

30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education By 2028

An interesting read, and a definite conversation starter. Here are their five year predictions (2018):

Technology to promote early literacy habits is seeded by venture capitalists. This is the start of new government programs that start farming out literacy and educational programs to start-ups, entrepreneurs, app developers, and other private sector innovators.

Digital literacy begins to outpace academic literacy in some fringe classrooms.

Custom multimedia content is available as the private sectors create custom iTunesU courses, YouTube channels, and other holding areas for content that accurately responds to learner needs.

Improved tools for measuring text complexity emerge, available through the camera feature of a mobile device, among other possibilities.

Open Source learning models will grow faster than those closed, serving as a hotbed for innovation in learning.

Purely academic standards, such as the Common Core movement in the United States, will begin to decline. As educators seek curriculum based not on content, but on the ability to interact, self-direct, and learn, institutionally-centered artifacts of old-age academia will begin to lost credibility.

Visual data will replace numerical data as schools struggle to communicate learning results to disenfranchised family and community members.

pearsonlabs: Top edtech trends at SXSWWhat big edtech themes...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:23:24 -0400

pearsonlabs:

Top edtech trends at SXSW

What big edtech themes have come out of SXSW? Here’s all you need to know:

1) Data: the impact that big data could have on education is yet to be realised - from student analysis to performance monitoring, we predict big things from big data in the next few years.

2) Gaming in the classroom - we’ve blogged about gaming in the classroom, most recently on “World of Warcraft”; gaming not only contributes to capturing meaningful learning data, but enables a collaborate, creative classroom environment where students can adapt their learning and problem solving skills to achieve a specific goal.

3) MOOCs - the rise of massively open online courses continues to grow.

4) The maker movement - there’s been a lot of talk about the inclusion of arts in traditional STEM education - creativity is an essential component of innovation.

5) The great divide - there’s a gaping hole between the innovations taking place at SXSW and real conversations with teachers - in fact there were hardly any full time educators at SXSW, which has to change.

(via The five most important ed-tech trends at SXSWedu | Digital)

lucayanbreeze: Germany Type Map in Sheer Slate

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:35:18 -0400

lucayanbreeze:

Germany Type Map in Sheer Slate

Awesome French: Endearments for close friends or children.

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:48:06 -0400

Awesome French: Endearments for close friends or children. : awesomefrench: For the anon asking...

visual-poetry: by giovanni anceschi (1973)

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:43:32 -0400

visual-poetry:

by giovanni anceschi (1973)

5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:24:54 -0500

5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think: divineirony: To say, “This is...

paradoxusmaximus: Just say yes!

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:21:22 -0500

paradoxusmaximus:

Just say yes!

I Love You Map - Valentine's Day Afterthoughts

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:19:00 -0500

Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us here at GlobaNova! When setting out on any...

130 Ways to Say "I Love You"

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:13:00 -0500

Happy Valentine’s Day from GlobaNova! Here’s the full list of “I Love You”...

If you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:12:39 -0500

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Linguistics Subtleties: Now the Whole World had One Language and a Common Speech

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:37:00 -0500

Linguistics Subtleties: Now the Whole World had One Language and a Common Speech:...

explore-blog: Fascinating map of heritage languages in America...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:00:00 -0500

explore-blog:

Fascinating map of heritage languages in America other than English. The picture is even more interesting with Spanish removed:

I Love You Wall (Monmartre, Paris)

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:40:00 -0500

With Valentine’s Day coming up in a just a few short days you might be wondering where you...