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About the Ethnologue | Ethnologue
Catalog of languages of the world
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a comprehensive reference work cataloging all of the world’s known living languages
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are organized by world area, UN region, and country
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indicate region of use within countries
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list alternate language and dialect names
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specify the three-letter code from ISO 639-3
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estimate speaker populations
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give genetic classification of the language
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describe language use and viability
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identify writing scripts used
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cite availability of literature and other products of language development
Language descriptions in the Ethnologue
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INTERVIEW: Peter Senge on Education, Systems Thinking and Our Careers
Author interview by Sharlyn Lauby (2014.08/10) sharing "rationale ... [for] incorporating focus-related skill sets into education" (¶2).
- We live in a world of increasingly complex and intractable problems. These are especially evident in the environmental and social domains. They range from climate change and destruction of ecosystems, to scarcity of water and other critical natural resources, and to the disproportionate effects these growing scarcities are having on the poor of the world
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- We have deep intractable social issues, such as youth unemployment around the world and the growing gap between rich and poor. All these ultimately are economic in the same sense that all social and environmental issues ultimately show up in our economic system. No one is very happy with the ability of their economies to establish pathways of sustainable progress
- In this book..., ¶2
- In terms of people’s careers and opportunities both as employees and entrepreneurs, I believe the combined foundation of social, emotional, and systemic intelligence will be pivotal
- In the book, ¶3career opportunitiesmultiple intelligences
- businesses know very well that the skill sets they need today and in the future are very different than those in the past
- they will need students who can think for themselves, work in teams, work with cross-cultural boundaries, and especially work together to solve complex ill-defined problems
- our opportunity to be lifelong learners of systems thinking is unlimited
- For professionals..., ¶1life-long learning
- But for most of us, the way to take advantage of these opportunities is to start locally
- For professionals..., ¶2act locally
- How can we foster reflection, so that people can begin to think about their thinking, starting with ourselves?
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- Without reflection, people tend to just assume their point of view is the right point of view and defend and argue from that point of view. Reflection is a key gateway that opens people to beginning to think together and move from just arguing for about who is right to collaboratively solving the problems we all face
- For professionals..., ¶3learning systems thinking: reflection
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The genre of research articles: The sections after methods | Pros Write
In this post, Campbell (2014.08.02) follows-up on The genre of research articles (2012.04.01) with explanations and illustrations of essential elements of such articles.
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Inspire Thoughtful Creative Writing Through Art | Global Digital Citizen Foundation
Great tips about using art for critical thinking and writing prompts
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Vision | Global Digital Citizen Foundation
"The Global Digital Citizen Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating responsible, ethical, global citizens for a digital world" (Vision, deck, 2014.08.27).
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"practical advice on planning, preparing and submitting articles for publication" (About this guide, p. 136)
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Delcore, Tenient-Matson, and Mullooly (2014) used findings from this study to delineate an on-campus space-use continuum that can be used for planning and renovating IT-related facilities, infrastructures, and services.
- 61 percent (463) of the total sessions were dominated by laptop or desktop use, while 39 percent (297) were dominated by mobile devices (phone, tablet, or iPod Touch)
- the continued ergonomic utility of large keyboards and screens for producing text and other digital output
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Beyond Knowing Facts, How Do We Get to a Deeper Level of Learning? | MindShift
Schwartz (2014.02.28) acknowledged that approaches fostering deeper learning are not new, and pointed out related competencies derived from a MOOC. She also highlighted challenges of assessing such competencies.
- The elements that make up this approach are not necessarily new — great teachers have been employing these tactics for years. But now there’s a movement to codify the different pieces that define the deeper learning approach, and to spread the knowledge from teacher to teacher, school to school in the form of a Deeper Learning MOOC (massive open online course), organized by a group of schools, non-profits, and sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation.
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So what defines deeper learning? This group has identified six competencies: mastering content, critical thinking, effective written and oral communication, collaboration, learning how to learn, and developing academic mindsets.
- “Before we assess, we need to know what we are assessing for,” said Marc Chun, program officer at the Hewlett Foundation. What does effective collaboration look like? What does it really look like to be a critical thinker? These skill are more oriented towards process than content, making them difficult to assess in a standardized way.
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"Vision of Humanity is a strong proponent of the need to further study, advocate and act on peace. It groups together a number of interrelated initiatives focused on global peace which enjoy the support of a wide range of philanthropists, business people, politicians, religious leaders and intellectuals. It brings a strategic approach to raising the world’s attention and awareness around the importance of peace to humanity’s survival in the 21st century" (A word from our founder, Steve Killelea, ¶3, 2014.08.26).
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Common ESL Mistakes - Business Insider
"Based entirely on ESL essays, the researchers [at MIT and Technion] were able to create a language similarity tree, showing the close links between, for instance, Japanese and Korean. Their language similarity tree looks remarkably similar to one based on data from The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)."
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