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A Learning Disability or a Language Acquisition Issue?

Sunday, May 31, 2009

This is a question that faces many classroom teachers. Is the “slower” student who just can’t seem to acquire English suffering from a learning disability (LD)? Or is this student just going at their own pace or in need of more English input and maybe differentiated instruction? How to know, how to decide?
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Learning as a self-organizing principle

Monday, March 9, 2009

See it Here!
One thing I’ve become convinced of as a teacher, is the fact that WE can be our own worst enemy. Meaning, somehow our own experiences, our 1,000s of hours in the classroom observing teachers, have conditioned us to “be teachers” and that this gets in the way of the success of our language [...]

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Siftables – A Future Tool in Our Classrooms!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

I’ve been engrossed of late with how I might use voice recognition technology in the language classroom. I might test drive it this semester — I’ll walk around the classroom “wired” and as I speak, all the students will see it come up in script on the screen.
This really isn’t intended for the very fluent [...]

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A Manifesto 4 2morrow’s Learning

Saturday, February 14, 2009

I’ve blogged about this previously but now want to provide for those who haven’t seen it, my full thoughts about the “future of learning”.
Presently, schools don’t get it and that’s why so so so so much learning is actually not school based! Yeah, think about that. Emperical studies have shown that kids learn everywhere, all [...]

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