Hmm, not so fast today (2015.03.30) compared to last week (2015.03.24-26).
Monday, March 30, 2015
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Diigo bookmarks (weekly)
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King's College London - International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation
"The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) is the first global centre for knowledge and leadership addressing the issues of radicalisation and political violence. It will produce world-class research and organise regular high-level meetings and outcome-driven dialogues on security issues" (¶1, 2015.03.28).
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What Sec. Duncan said about cross-cultural and language education in the U.S. may apply to other countries around the world as well.
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The United States is a country made up of many cultures—and we often celebrate that diversity. But just as often, we rely on the predominance of English as the language of global business and higher education when looking toward the world.
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We must improve language learning and international education at all levels if our nation is to continue to lead in the global economy; to help bring security and stability to the world; and to build stronger and more productive ties with our neighbors.
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6 Websites for Learning English Idioms | TESOL Blog
Shvidko, Elena. (2015, March 20). Six websites for learning English idioms [weblog post]. Retrieved from http://blog.tesol.org/6-websites-for-learning-english-idioms/
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English as lingua franca gives Singapore a fighting chance | Features | Malay Mail Online
This article recap's policies that made English a national language of education and made other official languages required second languages.
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Adopting the international language of business, diplomacy, and science and technology was about the only way this resource-less tiny island could guarantee its survival after losing its economic hinterland in Malaysia. Unemployment was at 14 per cent and rising.
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Just as importantly, picking this race-neutral language demonstrated his government’s anti-communalistic stance, helping to keep the peace in a newborn nation made up of a polyglot-settler populace who had struggled for years with racial and religious strife.
- Main article, ¶4
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For the sake of building “a community that feels together”, Lee pushed through the bilingualism policy in 1966. All students had to learn their “mother tongue”, Mandarin, Malay or Tamil, depending on their race, as a second language, and this became a compulsory and critical examination subject in 1969.
- Bilingualism, ¶1
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But the various initiatives Lee rolled out in subsequent years to put proficiency in mother tongue on par with that in English were to divide opinions, especially among the Chinese, even up to the present. Indeed, he described bilingualism in 2004 as the “most difficult” policy he had had to implement.
- Imperfect implementation, ¶1
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University teachers in Japan work under the shadow of a falling ax | The Japan Times
"Double the trouble: Universities last year won a special exemption from a law ostensibly aimed at boosting the ranks of the permanently employed. The law means companies are obliged to employ temporary workers as permanent employees after five years of continuous work on fixed-term contracts, if those workers request it. However, under the exemption, university teachers and researchers will have to toil an extra five years as temps before they can benefit from the law, starting from 2024. | ISTOCK "
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Diigo bookmarks (weekly)
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About the Project | Global Freedom of Expression & Information @Columbia
"The purpose of Global Freedom of Expression & Information @Columbia (Global FoE&I @Columbia) is to advance understanding of, and promote, international norms and institutions that protect the free flow of information and expression in an inter-connected global community with major common challenges to face and address" (Objectives, ¶1, 2015.03.17).
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"The 'Climate Action Tracker' is an independent science-based assessment, which tracks the emission commitments and actions of countries. The website provides an up-to-date assessment of individual national pledges and currently implemented policy to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions" (deck, 2015.03.16).
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MultiBrief: The 4 C’s of 21st century learning for ELLs: Critical thinking
"This is the first article of a four-part series on teaching the four C's effectively to English learners: Critical thinking | Communication | Collaboration | Creativity" (deck, 2015.03.16).
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Diigo bookmarks (weekly)
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Essential Conditions (ISTE, 2015)
"The ISTE Essential Conditions are the 14 critical elements necessary to effectively leverage technology for learning" (Essential conditions, ¶1, 2015.03.12).
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"After extracting field of study vocabulary and scoring your text against a range of possible fields of study, the [Field Related? text analysis] system will provide links to glossaries and vocabulary learning activities to help you further your English Second Language learning."
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Books for children available online with narration in various languages
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What students think of their blended learning teachers | eSchool News | eSchool News
"A recent survey [in Australia] reveals that teacher training may impact student opinion in blended courses" (deck, 2015.03.11).
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How Do I Correctly Format a Copyright? | LegalZoom: Legal Info
Step by step instructions for notices on published and unpublished work.
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http://www.apa.org/pubs/authors/new-author-guide.pdf
"This guide provides an overview of the process of preparing and submitting a scholarly manuscript for publication in a psychology journal. Drawing on the experiences of authors of scholarly writings, peer reviewers, and journal editors, we seek to demystify the publication process and to offer advice designed to improve a manuscript’s prospects of publication. To exemplify the process, we describe specific publication procedures for journals of the American Psychological Association." (APA, 2010, p. 1)
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SAGE - the natural home for authors, editors and societies - Journal Gateway
This academic publisher's webpage covers "a number of resources available to support you through the writing and submission process" (How to get published: Writing your article for publication, ¶1, 2015.03.10). Resources include a brochure, a presentation, a two-part video, and a link to the publisher's entire catalog of journals for previews of submission guidelines.
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Elsevier for authors | Elsevier
"Publish in an Elsevier journal. The process step by step." Though this guide is publisher specific, the process reflects general practices in academic publishing.
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Presenting Without a Net - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"If you want to get published, you have to write in a way that makes people want to read. And if you want anyone—students, peers, legislators, donors—to listen to you, you have to speak to them, not read to them." (Toor, 02 March 2015, ¶23)
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Directory of Open Access Journals
"DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals" (deck, ¶1, 2015.03.09).
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Worst practice in ICT use in education | Edutech
"If adopting 'best practice' is fraught with difficulties, and 'good practice' often noted but ignored, perhaps it is useful instead to look at 'worst practice'. The good news is that, in the area of ICT use in education, there appears to be a good deal of agreement about what this is!" (Trucano, 2010, ¶2, retrieved 2015.03.09)
Sunday, March 08, 2015
Diigo bookmarks (weekly)
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Peer Review Feedback Has Changed - Official WizIQ Teach Blog
For this blog post, Nellie Deutsch interviewed Steve Tuffill "to learn more about the history of peer review and how it has changed since its inception" (Peer review feedback has changed, ¶1, 2015.03.06).
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Center For Collaborative Action - home
"The Wikispace of The Center for Collaborative Action Research (CCAR)"
Sunday, March 01, 2015
Diigo bookmarks (weekly)
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Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter: 1390. Guidelines for Inquiry-Based Project Work
This TP eNews... post featured an adopted and adapted rubric for group project work, "an inquiry-based project rubric that consists of eight dimensions." (Guidelines for Inquiry-Based Project Work, ¶2, 2015.02.17). Determining the extent and substance of adaptations noted in the except may require both access to the source of the except and the source of the original rubric.
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Social Media for Teachers: Guides, Resources, and Ideas | Edutopia
"[I]t can be a challenge to incorporate social media into lessons. There are many gray areas for teachers to navigate, like setting guidelines, accessibility at school, and student safety. But to help teachers navigate this ever-changing landscape of social media tools, here are some of the best guides on the web for four popular networks, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest" (¶2, 2015.02.23).
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