Mariana Abuan and Ryan Toth TOEFL Preparation: Second Language Immersion Second language immersion is found in ESL, sheltered content, and adjunct classes. In these classes, the input is still adjusted to the students’ needs, but their first languages and…
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Media Artifact: The Internet, i-pod, and Facebook, oh my!
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I was born before I should have been. I was born just in time to miss inclusion into the digital native generation. Surfing the internet wasn’t a common household activity when I was in high-school. Word-processing was not a part of…
Learning and Games: Cut the Crap!
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James Paul Gee, thank you for writing an article for gamers, by a gamer. Now, please don’t ever do it again. Gamers are not academics. Some people, my professor included, will try to tell me this is not true. But…
I was Time Magazine’s Person of the Year? Where’s My Prize?!
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In 2006, Time Magazine named me “Person of the Year”. It’s true. Google it. They named you, too. Had I realized that I was so important, I would’ve let you all know long ago. I am a filmmaker. I am…
Proposal: Using New Media in the Classroom
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Using new media in the classroom presents new challenges for educators and students alike. Educators must: 1. Contend with the availability of the new media to their student demographic (do the students have access to computers and the internet, or…
Using Blogs in the Classroom
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have defined literacy as “the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.” They go on to say that “literacy involves…
Redefining Literacy
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The inability to use a computer–for communication or commerce, or even for personal enjoyment–can severely limit one’s ability to function in today’s world. In short, being illiterate has to do with lacking communication skills, and those skills are no longer…
Digital natives need admin support!
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I think Prensky writes a very commanding article. So does Jenkins. But both men speak outside of their own personal experience. I wonder what a young student, say perhaps a 7th grade girl, would have to say about the use…