Education 2.0 & 3.0

July 7, 2021, from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Zoom. An opportunity to share provocative reflections, present interesting teaching practices, and have conversations about how teachers can support learning through providing an inclusive teaching of languages.

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Via Ana Cristina Pratas

By Lindsay McKenzie

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Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

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As the maker movement in culture moves from MacGyver jokes and what Noah did when Allie left him in The Notebook to something with a bit more academic and cognitive credibility, it has also begun to creep in to the education space.

As with any niche, there is specialized language–jargon–that may keep things murky for you. The 38 terms below by no means represent an exhaustive collection. (There are dozens of gadgets, circuit boards, and digital, robotic, and electrical wizardry we left on the cutting room flow.) But for most teachers in most circumstances, it should serve as a nice starting points.

Via John Evans

In honor of OK Day, here's a look at how this uniquely American acronym went viral.

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Remember your seventh-grade Spanish class? Of course you do. But do you remember anything from it? You might’ve left off language-learning with decent proficiency at some point in your educational career, only to forget most of it with disuse in the years since. But picking up where you left off–or backtracking to the very beginning–isn’t a bad idea as an adult. In fact, trying to learn (or relearn) a language as an adult can help your brain in ways that spill over into the rest of your working life–even if you never actually become fluent. Here’s how.

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Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

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Sylvia Duckworth

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Word Webs is a free site that generates connected webs based on the words you enter and select. Generate a web simply head to the sit

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Knoword is a site that I first reviewed more than eight years ago. Over the years the it has evolved but one thing has remained th

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Could robots change the way we think?

While that might seem the stuff of dark science fiction, New Zealand artificial intelligence (AI) experts say there's real fear that computer algorithms could hijack our language, and ultimately influence our views on products or politics.

"I would compare the situation with the subliminal advertising that was outlawed in the 1970s," said Associate Professor Christoph Bartneck, of Canterbury University's Human Interface Technology Laboratory, or HIT Lab.

"We are in a danger of repeating the exact same issue with the use of our language."

Via Miloš Bajčetić

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How to create an alien tongue from scratch.
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