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Key Takeaway: A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power.
The World Forest Institute International Fellows got many of their questions answered by the DNR staff about various forest practices. Photo by Lindsey Rieck/ DNR
Golden West High School Environmental Science AP students complete a service learning project at Dry Creek. Restabilizing the hillside. Photo by John Greening. 11/17/09.
Indu Roy* lives in a girls' hostel Prabal and Debjani Dey* opened for girls who live on the street.
Many girls like Roy either have no parents or have been abandoned.
Roy says she likes the story of Adam and Eve. Her favorite song is “My God is so Great”
Photo © 2012 IMB / Karis Baldwin
An innovative new digital learning tool for classroom environments that promotes hands-on, active learning and engages students like never before.
Designed to support k-12 learning environments, i3LIGHTHOUSE helps teachers bring lessons to life while encouraging students to play, collaborate, share and engage.
i3LIGHTHOUSE not only supports the I.Q. side of learning but the E.Q side as well. Developing strong social and communication skills at an early age prepares students for a more successful learning path.
Developing a basic familiarity with technology and digital media at a younger age is strongly encouraged by early childhood theorists and leaders of thought.
The great comedian Sid Caesar does not endorse the following method of improving at foreign languages.
I teach English in Japan, lately with I like to think increasing success, and I speak & write Japanese. My trick for learning foreign languages is....
The Sid Caesar method: If you learn to impersonate languages, no matter how badly, you will also learn how to speak them. Please give this time, and try the experiment.
Gradually it seemed to me that the biggest difficulty with learning a foreign language is not making meaning but the fear of the lack of it.
What do I mean?! The story goes like this.
When I learnt to speak Japanese after studying it for about 4 years I also found myself able to speak and read French. I had never been good at French at school, but something in my head, my psychological attitude to language had changed. I am not saying I am good at French but suddenly I had no problem with blabbing in my bad French. For a long time I did not work out what had changed.
Then two things happened:
1) I came across some research by Steven Heine, extending "terror management theory" arguing that there is not thing more scary than the absence of meaning. You can download his paper here Page on Psych
2) I came across some comedians that "impersonate languages" such as the late great Sid Caesar, and I thought "That's it. That is what changed."
Here is Sid Caesar impersonating French and other languages.
When I was young I had a black friend who (though he is as English as I am) when treated with prejudice in a public place used to reply in his impersonation of an African language. At the time even the thought of impersonating a language filled me with dread. But now I hardly break into a sweat. I am not as good as Sid Caesar in the above video but speaking in gobbledygook no longer hurts. I will append my video at the end.
Many people (especially in Japan) think that foreign languages are very difficult, and that you need to know a lot of grammar and vocabulary. At the same time, many native speakers (especially children) use a small vocabulary and the grammar they use could be written on a postcard. In other words the intellectual, structural, and factual information required of being able to speak like a child in a foreign language is the sort of thing you can learn in a couple of days.
This fact has been known in the language teaching community for some time, and leads to an emphasis upon "acquisition" of language through practice, rather than learning of language (e.g. rote memorisation of grammar and vocab).
But even using Krashen or other acquisition / communication centred techniques, progress is slow. What is the reason for this? One reason is that practice is required, just as it is required in another other skill, such as tennis. You don't become a good tennis player just by learning tennis theory.
But there is another aspect that is peculiar to language. To an extent we live in language, we narrative our selves in it, and when the language lacks meaning it results in a loss of self that is almost as scary as death (see Heine's research above). When we go to speak a foreign language, and let roll with a sentence that may well be all wrong, and may meet with a complete lack of comprehension, we enter that world of unmeaning and experience something akin to death. And this is terrifying.
However, of course, we do not die and we gradually learn not to be scared.
There is quicker route. If you practice impersonating languages, such as by watching a YouTube video of an Italian interview and then practice speaking in fake Italian mimicry (like Sid Caesar above) then you can, gradually, overcome this fear of flying into unmeaning. I am not saying that you will suddenly become a polyglot, but it will make foreign languages easier.
At the least you will become aware of one of the biggest, I would say the biggest, obstacles to foreign language proficiency.
The experiment.
1) Time yourself for a minute. Try and say as much as you can in the foreign language of you are trying to learn.
2) Then watch a video on YouTube of a language that you know nothing about and try impersonating that language for one minute. Do not worry about the quality of your impersonation, just try and make various word like sounds. (You can find some Chinese by searching for "發明" or some Italian, I think, by searching for "intervista")
In which case did you make more sound? I am guessing that you made more sounds in case (1) even though you had to use correct grammar, correct vocabulary. In case (2) you could have made any old noise.
In other words, it is not the words, the meaning, the grammar that is difficult, but the un-meaning that is the biggest, terrifying obstacle to foreign language acquisition.
If you can already "do a Sid Caesar" then I predict you will be quick at learning foreign languages or already can speak one.
Here is me impersonating Chinese. It is not good and makes me cringe a bit still but in times past the mere thought was quite beyond the pale (i.e. s*** scary). Here is a link to my video of me Impersonating Three Languages.
Image of Sid Caesar in 1959 above adapted from this image which is apparently in the public domain
Addendum (Big Mistake)
"My head" is inside my narrative and field of view, not the other way around! This is a very important point and the danger of the scientific worldview. The scientific world is a product of our narration as even some scientists a vow (Wheeler, Mach). Our head is also something we see in our field of view in mirrors, or our nose and brow directly. Our perceptions (including of our whispers) are not inside "me" or my body. To think so would be double death.
she winds up. . .she launches. . .she lands. . .and wthout missing a step, she climbs
or "how to scare the shiz out of your dad in 3 seconds or less" :D
i totally missed the airborne shot. i think my jaw was somewhere on the ground and my stomach was somewhere in my throat and all my parental fear mechanisms were firing. like: "em!!! WTH are you doing????
i think, no not "i think," that's weak... how about "i know." my job as their parent is to give them wings. not spindly little uncertain wings, that invite them to settle. certainly not the fantasy wings of icarus. my job is to help them craft real wings; strong and powerful wings. wings that will take them anywhere. . .
i have more from this triumph to post and much more to say about this subject. . .but hey it's only flickr, so i'll shut up. . .
groove yer week. . .
:)
An innovative new digital learning tool for classroom environments that promotes hands-on, active learning and engages students like never before.
Designed to support k-12 learning environments, i3LIGHTHOUSE helps teachers bring lessons to life while encouraging students to play, collaborate, share and engage.
i3LIGHTHOUSE not only supports the I.Q. side of learning but the E.Q side as well. Developing strong social and communication skills at an early age prepares students for a more successful learning path.
Developing a basic familiarity with technology and digital media at a younger age is strongly encouraged by early childhood theorists and leaders of thought.
The baby is 4 1/2 months now. He is really getting into playing with toys. He loves to bat down towers that his brother and I build and he is just able to grip things properly and explore them.
He adores his older brother too and he laughs like crazy when CJ plays peek a boo with him. It cracks me up too and brings a lump to my throat. Their bond is so so strong.
The four of us (@amyquam @martintwin2 @angiegriess @RussGoerend) are
spending our collaboration time today revising a common rubric for a project
we're doing. I just got scolded because "Russ, we know you're not with us
because you're not logged into the Google Doc!"
Happy learning from Waukee Middle School in Waukee, IA
6th English PLC
Learning Cafe: Open Space for Restoration, Rights and Geodata. Global Landscapes Forum Bonn 2019.
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1766,12-08-17, Cathedral Ball held in the Cathedral of Learning in the commons room. This was sponsered by the student alumni association
Cathedral Ball
Conaton Learning Center (CLC) Third floor of the building where the connection center is located and study tables. Students can rent laptops, get laptops repaired, and rent books at the connection center.
Preservice teachers at Washington State University Vancouver are able to get top-notch in-class instruction. We recently visited two different classes taught by Dr. Shameem Rakha, one Classroom Management (TL 310), the other Diversity in Schools and Society (TL 330). It was quite evident that WSU Vancouver, as well as our faculty, are adding to our students' desire to teach by helping them build capacity to be agents of change.
1766,12-08-17, Cathedral Ball held in the Cathedral of Learning in the commons room. This was sponsered by the student alumni association
Cathedral Ball
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Bethlehem Public Library on Saturday Mar 14, 2015.
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The Global Learning Council inaugural meeting was hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
New & Learning May Scavenger Hunt
Well, I've done it for the first time and it was great fun. I took a few minor liberties along the way, but I hope nobody minds.
The list was:
1. Round Things
2. Rust
3. Flames
4. Rocks/stones/boulders (one or all)
5. Flag (of your country or your state)
8. Pet (yours or someone elses)
11. Still Life of Tools (garden, workshop, tools of a trade, etc.)
12. Boots
13. Lips
Thank you very much to fotofunk1 for coming up with the list.