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Digital Learning Success Is About More Than the Technology
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A principal offers insights from his teachers on Digital Learning Day.
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Digital learning offers the student the important opportunity to study in his or her own pace and time.
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For a Better Brain, Learn Another Language
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The cognitive benefits of multilingualism
One theory on why this might be is that there’s increased psychological distance when speaking a language that isn’t your mother tongue. Researchers in the spending study posited that subjects had less of an emotional reaction to things heard in their second (or third, or fourth) language, perhaps allowing for a more levelheaded decision.
More recently and perhaps most importantly, it’s been found that people who learn a second language, even in adulthood, can better avoid cognitive decline in old age. In fact, when everything else is controlled for, bilinguals who come down with dementia and Alzheimer’s do so about four-and-a-half years later than monolinguals.
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Spanish Programs Online for Teenagers & Adults: you can learn the language using interactive materials that you can access on our virtual campus, developed by Spanish native teachers in Spain, in cooperation with the university of Malaga Spain. After learning each chapter, you will speak with your private Spanish native teacher in Spain for a personal evaluation. A unique, fun and proficient way to learn the Spanish Language properly. For more information contact me: Sonja Hartemink [email protected]
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Two languages are better than one
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Boxing rings are actually square, quicksand works slowly and a Guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor a pig. According to the Center for Applied Linguistics, learning a second language at an early age has a positive effect on intellectual growth. Multilingual people, especially children, are skilled at switching between two systems of speech, writing and structure, which, according to Penn State University, makes them good multitaskers, because they can easily switch between different structure
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Spanish Programs Online for Teenagers & Adults: they can learn the language using interactive materials that they can access on our virtual campus, developed by Spanish native teachers in Spain, in cooperation with the university of Malaga Spain. After learning each chapter, the students will speak with their private Spanish native teacher in Spain for a personal evaluation. A unique, fun and proficient way to learn the Spanish Language properly. For more information contact me: Sonja Hartemink [email protected]
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There are definite advantages to learning a second and/or third language. According to the Center for Applied Linguistics, learning a second language at an early age has a positive effect on intellectual growth. It enriches and enhances a child’s mental development, leaves students with more flexibility in thinking, greater sensitivity to language, and a better ear for listening.
It helps build multitasking skills. Multilingual people, especially children, are skilled at switching between two systems of speech, writing and structure, which, according to Penn State University, makes them good multitaskers, because they can easily switch between different structures.
It staves off Alzheimer’s and dementia. According to a recent study by Dr. Thomas Bak in the journal “Neurology,” being bilingual keeps the brain “nimble” and may delay the onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s by up to six years.
Also, knowing another language can increase career choices and job opportunities. Procter & Gamble states that a number of its jobs in Europe, Latin America, Asia and the U.S. requires a foreign language, which gives bilingual applicants a huge advantage.
Hospitals, courts, schools, Fortune 500 companies and the State Department are all recruiting employees with language skills. The Department of Labor estimates a 42 percent increase in jobs for interpreters and translators over the next 10 years.
Speaking a second or third language gives us the ability to communicate with people we would otherwise not have the chance to know.
I encourage more Americans to learn a second language. I think it would help expand our understanding of other cultures and of the world, and it might even help us live a little longer. And that’s how I see it.
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Should You Talk to Your Child in a Different Language?
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New parents face a lot of pressures. Until I became a parent myself, I didn’t realize the sea of conflicting advice that besieges parents on everything from feeding strategies to whether you need a baby Jacuzzi. One of the more important decisions is what language bilingual parents will speak to their child. It’s natural to want the best for one’s child, and also to draw on one’s own childhood in parenting, but what if you speak a second language less fluently, one that you learned as an adult? Is it worth speaking your less fluent second language to your kid?
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I interpreted Hoff’s results as showing that the children who spoke English at home didn’t get much of a boost from their parents, because they were already getting a great deal of English input from the wider community. That is, they were already learning English from their peers rather than primarily from their parents, and so the extra input of second language English didn’t make much difference to their fluency. On the other hand, the Spanish group were getting most of their Spanish input from parents (and perhaps other close family), and were benefitting from growing up bilingual.
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Why is mine the most plausible interpretation? Well, first of all, there’s a lot of research showing that being bilingual is good for the brain in general, in everything from multi-tasking to later onset of Alzheimer’s. And secondly, research in sociolinguistics tells us that children learn language from their peers, even from a very young age: NC State linguist Walt Wolfram for example, has shown that peers start being more important linguistic role models than parents at around the age of four. (Of course, this remains true throughout adolescence, as any parent trying to understand textspeak can tell you.) This is why even though my husband and I are Australian, our kids, growing up in Connecticut, will speak like Yankees—and why the kids in Hoff’s study learned English from the surrounding community even when their parents spoke primarily Spanish to them.
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#bilingual children#bilingual education#education#Blended learning#ipad class#Online Spanish#virtual campus#ict#homeschooling
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so you want to homeschool: how to know if you are a good teacher
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Back in the olden days when I was a homeschool student, one of the most common fears society used to prey on homeschooling parents was that they weren’t qualified to be good enough teachers to their children. Oh, and of course, the children wouldn’t know how to function in society.
(Thank you, mom, for being brave enough to stand up to the fear. I will forever be indebted to you for that courage.)
Thousands of students later, homeschool has literally blown away the competition. Our teachers are phenomenal. Outstanding. Incredible. Miracle workers.
Or are we?
In spite of all we have accomplished collectively, as individual homeschooling parents, we still feel, well–inadequate. Not quite up to par. I think this is partly because we seem to think that if our child has not discovered a new scientific element by the time he is nine and our homeschool room does not rival the best Pinterest board, we must be doing something wrong.
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Spanish Programs Online for Children (9+): they can learn the language using interactive materials that they can access on our virtual campus, developed by Spanish native teachers in Spain, in cooperation with the university of Malaga Spain. After learning each chapter, the children will speak with their private Spanish native teacher in Spain for a personal evaluation. A unique, fun and proficient way to learn the Spanish Language properly. For more information contact me: Sonja Hartemink [email protected]
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Homeschoolers miss out on real life experiences | Quick Start Homeschool
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Worried your kids may miss out on valuable life experiences when homeschooled? Think again. Dr. Marie-Claire Moreau presents this summary of just what
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Spanish Programs Online for Children (9+): they can learn the language using interactive materials that they can access on our virtual campus, developed by Spanish native teachers in Spain, in cooperation with the university of Malaga Spain. After learning each chapter, the children will speak with their private Spanish native teacher in Spain for a personal evaluation. A unique, fun and proficient way to learn the Spanish Language properly. For more information contact me: Sonja Hartemink [email protected]
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#homeschooling#bilingual children#Online Spanish#education#Blended learning#ict#ipad class#aprender#Español#spanish for children
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5 Language Learning Concepts You Need to Understand to Raise a Bilingual Child
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How can you help your child become bilingual? Understanding these five concepts will make it much easier!
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An interesting article with tips about how to teach Spanish to children.
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Professional and Personal Online Spanish for Children and Teenagers:
www.spanish-school-herradura.com/online-spanish
After running a Spanish Language School in the South of Spain, teaching foreign families for many years, we have developed Online courses, to make our good quality product available to a lot more children, teenagers and adults. We have developed a virtual platform, with interactive learning materials, blog, fora, online library and online medium, for one-on-one evaluations with qualified Spanish native teachers in Spain. Feel free to contact me for more information: [email protected]
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The Best Way to Learn a Foreign Language Is the Opposite of the Usual Way
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This article is by Katharine B. Nielson, the chief education officer at Voxy, a language-learning company based in New York City. The renowned Mexican author Carlos Fuentes once remarked that America’s monolingualism is a great paradox: We’re the dominant world power, yet also the world’s most linguistically isolated one. The numbers […]
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Virtual learning opens possibilities world wide. Why not consider following an online Spanish course, developed by Spanish Native teachers in Spain. Teachers and professionals that have experience teaching Spanish to foreigners, children & adults. We have developed a virtual campus, and after each chapter, the student will be personally evaluated by his or her private Spanish teacher.
Interactive learning materials, with focus on communication has proven to be very effective, and keeps students motivated.
An effective, affordable and fun way to quickly and efficiently learn the Spanish language.
Contact me Sonja Hartemink for the ins and outs of our product: [email protected]
www.spanish-school-herradura.com —> soon our new website will go online. If you contact me I will keep you informed of all developments. Looking forward to be in touch!
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#e-learning#Online Spanish#virtual campus#language learning#Blended learning#ict#iPad#ipad class#education#Ele#dele#aprender#Español#homeschooling#bilingual children
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- 10 Sites for Blended Learning
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The Resource for Education Technology Leaders focusing on K-12 educators. Site contains a Software Reviews Database, articles from Technology & Learning Magazine, articles from Educators in Educators’ eZine, Event and Contest listings, Reader suggested Web sites, and weekly news updates on education technology leaders.
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What is Blended Learning? This is a question that I frequently think about and a term that gets tossed around in education. It’s a smorgasbord of teaching strategies that uses analog and digital technologies to teach and learn. Below is a list of resources that can be used for Blended Learning instruction. 10 Sites for Blended Learning - See more at: http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&entryid=8250#sthash.Gne0auGu.dpuf
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#Blended learning#bilingual children#Online Spanish#ict#virtual platform#online campus#flipped classroom#e-learning#education
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From J-Lo to Strictly: why more students are learning Spanish
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Spanish is helping to reverse the decade-long decline in the number of students taking language GCSEs, says Emily Wight
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Its popularity is down to a number of a cultural factors, according to Simon Coffey, course tutor of PGCE French and Spanish at King’s College London, who points to Spain’s popularity as a family holiday destination. The number of Brits travelling there this year increased by 5.8% on 2013: “We’re always asking people why, and the same reasons crop up – the perceived importance of Spanish in the world and also the fact that people go on holiday there and we can’t underestimate the importance of that as a factor.”
Memories of a week in Benidorm with mum and dad don’t make Spanish cool – that’s down to Shakira. Yes, really. Coffey points to the growing mainstream appeal of American Latino culture that has followed in the footsteps of fast food, hip-hop and Hollywood to become an American cultural export to the UK. “Spanish is cool partly because of the holiday factor in the European sense but also because it’s got Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, all the famous Latino singers in the States,” he said. “French and German don’t have that sort of global appeal because they’re not present in youth culture in the same way.”
Kristina Hardy, a Spanish teacher at Helenswood Academy in East Sussex, agrees. She has noticed that students are attracted to the Latino culture they see on TV. “Students are used to hearing Spanish more in music – like Shakira. They go mad listening to her songs,” she said. TV programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing, which features traditional Latin American dances such as the paso doble and the tango, have had an influence, she adds.
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#e-learning#bilingual children#Online Spanish#education#Blended learning#homeschooling#ict#Spanish Immersion
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Micro Teaching on WizIQ - Official WizIQ Teach Blog
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Learn to Blend and Flip with Technology Many teachers feel alone when it comes to teaching with and without technology. They wish they could share information and ideas with other teachers in their schools and around the globe. Learn to Blend and Flip with Technology course provides teachers with opportunities to collaborate with other teachers on how to blend and flip their classes with technology. You can access the content and class recordings here: http://www.wiziq.com/course/14339-blogging-reflective-learning...
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Teaching with Technology
Learn to Blend and Flip with Technology is a free hands-on professional development course for educators and/or anyone who wants to share information in a socially meaningful way. The course includes live online classes (with recordings), content (via the courseware), discussions (via the course feed), and hands-on activities.
Participants learn how to create videos using Webcams via WizIQ classes, screencast-o-matic, PowerPoint presentations, and Google drive. They learn to create videos using screencast-o-matic, movenote, and jing and upload the video files to Youtube and Vimeo for blended learning, the flipped class, and to market their online courses. Participants learn how to teach with web technologies such as blogs, wikis, google drive, badges, the WizIQ live class, Moodle, social networks, and videos.
Certificates of Completion
Participants, who reflect on 10 of the live sessions on their blogs, receive a certificate of completion. One of the highlights of the course is a series of live online classes called “Understanding the Teaching System of WizIQ”.
Understanding the Teaching System of WizIQ
Understanding the Teaching System on WizIQ are live online classes led by Dr. Nellie Deutsch, an experienced WizIQ user. Nellie has been teaching with WizIQ since 2007. The webinars are part of a series of weekly online classes on the features available on WizIQ to organize online conferences, deliver MOOCs, and teach synchronous and/or asynchronous courses for fully online, blended, and flipped class programs for the private and public sectors.
Micro-Teaching on WizIQ
Members of Learn to Blend and Flip with Technology and Understanding the Teaching System of WizIQ are preparing for their certificates for Micro-teaching. From October to the end of December, 2014, you will be conducting micro teaching in pairs. You may pair up with anyone from the list of course learners. If your pair is not in the course, they can enrol.
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#flipped classroom#Blended learning#bilingual children#Spanish Online#education#e-learning#ict#virtual platform
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Letter to an Online Teacher: See Your Students - Official WizIQ Teach Blog
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I see you. In her Ted Talk, Amanda Palmer, the alternative rock icon of the Dresden Dolls, talked about her time as a human statue. She would stand on the street, painted white and on a pedestal, as “The 8 foot bride.” When someone put money into her hat, she would hand them a flower and engage in “A beautiful moment of prolonged eye contact.”
She states:
I had the most profound encounters with people, especially lonely people who looked like they hadn’t talked to anyone in weeks, and we would get this beautiful moment of prolonged eye contact … my eyes would say, “Thank you. I see you.” And their eyes would say, “Nobody ever sees me. Thank you.”
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How can we see our students?
It is hard to be a genius and see the genius in each of our online students. We can’t as easily see what they are wearing which might give us insight into their personality, style, and how they want to portray themselves. Chatting before class is trickier. We don’t see them walking around campus or in the hallways. It is simply not as easy for us to see them as it is in an old fashioned classroom.
Yet, they are there, wanting to be seen. Here are some tips to help you “see” your online students.
-Stop and look. To see people, Palmer looked at them. She stopped what she was doing, she stopped what she was thinking, and she wholly devoted herself to looking at the passerby. If you want to see your students, you have to look at them. It takes times. You cannot look at them (or their work) when you are tired, when you are trying to cook dinner, or when you are distracted. It takes space. You need a quiet space to really reflect on who they are and what they have created for you.
-Tell your students, over and over again, that you want to know them and see their work. I frequently tell my students, “I love correcting essays! Whatever you write, I will correct. It will not hurt.” What I want to convey is “You are safe here. I know that your mom tears apart your writing and your last teacher never read it. I know that the blank page scares you and you are pretty convinced that you cannot write a sentence, but I promise you: you are safe here. Whatever you write will be kindly received.”
-Learn about your students before class. I conduct a phone interview with the parents of my students before the first class. I ask the parents to tell me what excites and engages their child. I inquire about the student’s learning style and make sure that their hopes for the course are in line with my offerings.
-Ask students for feedback. I frequently ask my students what is working for them. I might say, “How is the reading going? Let me know if it is too hard or too easy. I want the assignment to be just right.” They tell me.
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4 Tips for Getting to Know the Blended Instructional Model
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Guest blogger Victor Small, Jr. offers four practical tips for getting comfortable with blended learning: don’t assume every kid is a tech wiz, be wary of online textbooks, use PowerPoint sparingly, and encourage student-to-student communication.
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The days of talking at students are finally over. I recall many a college class filled to the brim with students feverishly taking down notes, as our professor talked at us.
Sounds familiar? Probably.
Recently, I finished my Masters degree in what was a new environment for me: blended classes. The experience allowed me to further communicate with my colleagues and classmates in a manner that I hadn’t been accustomed to. Instead of reading each other’s notes and organizing study groups, we were posting in wikis and responding to discussion board posts. Instead of learning focused on facts and statistics that we needed to figure out how to memorize, our learning was focused on what we could do with the information presented.
I left this experience determined to bring the concept to my classroom, and due to the Common Core’s adoption, we all need to embrace this concept. The fact is that the average American is using technology which is not only above what we in education generally use to teach, but this same technology is banned from our schools to prevent students from using it inappropriately. It’s our job as educators to embrace this technology and navigate our students through it. Districts have already begun to explore blended instructional models, so to help ease any tension, here are some tips to keep in mind as you begin adopting these new teaching methods.
Tip #1: Kids Aren’t as Tech Savvy as You Think
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What happens in the brain when you learn a language?
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Scans and neuroscience are helping scientists understand what happens to the brain when you learn a second language
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Learning a foreign language can increase the size of your brain. This is what Swedish scientists discovered when they used brain scans to monitor what happens when someone learns a second language. The study is part of a growing body of research using brain imaging technologies to better understand the cognitive benefits of language learning. Tools like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electrophysiology, among others, can now tell us not only whether we need knee surgery or have irregularities with our heartbeat, but reveal what is happening in our brains when we hear, understand and produce second languages.
The Swedish MRI study showed that learning a foreign language has a visible effect on the brain. Young adult military recruits with a flair for languages learned Arabic, Russian or Dari intensively, while a control group of medical and cognitive science students also studied hard, but not at languages. MRI scans showed specific parts of the brains of the language students developed in size whereas the brain structures of the control group remained unchanged. Equally interesting was that learners whose brains grew in the hippocampus and areas of the cerebral cortex related to language learning had better language skills than other learners for whom the motor region of the cerebral cortex developed more.
In other words, the areas of the brain that grew were linked to how easy the learners found languages, and brain development varied according to performance. As the researchers noted, while it is not completely clear what changes after three months of intensive language study mean for the long term, brain growth sounds promising.
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What Teachers Need to Know about Neuroscience and Brain-Based Learning
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Neuroscience has disclosed important information about the brain and how we learn. We now know more about how the human brain processes, interprets and stores information than ever.
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Is this information relevant to how we teach and learn?
I think teachers should be aware of the research done in the field of neuroscience. The theories of learning (Behaviorist, Cognitive, Constuctivism), are important in how we relate to information and how it is delivered in the face-to-face and online learning environments. Course developers and teachers need to apply the theories of learning when it comes to instruction and learning.
The brain-based learning theory requires that we shift our focus to the learning process. This information can be used to facilitate learning. Technology can be used to support a brain-based finding that emotions are critical to learning.
How learners feel is very important to the learning process.
If a learner is enthusiastic and doesn’t feel any stress, learning will take place. If the conditions are negative and the learner doesn’t feel safe, learning will not take place. Neuroscientists discovered this information about the learning process as they were researching the way the brain learns.
Is the learning process the same as it was in the past?
We are all aware of the fact that yesterday’s methods worked well for yesterday’s students. But the student brain of today is wired differently from the one of 10 years ago. It is therefore necessary to study how students’ brains work today so that it is possible to enhance their learning.
Technology can cater to these neuroscience brain-based findings in the computer lab as well as for online learning courses. Various Microsoft tools such as PowerPoint presentations, Excel, Word processor and other software with multimedia functions can be used by the teacher and students instead of using conventional outdated class tools. Since today’s brain needs a TV like environment, both sound and animations can be used to suit today’s learner.
Lessons can be prepared by utilizing the information that is readily available on the internet. Learning can be meaningful. However to avoid frustrations and stress that can interfere with learning, lessons must be planned very carefully to help structure and focus students’ explorations on the Internet. This will direct them to the goals at hand. Today’s students experience different patterns from those of the past. Brain-based learning findings reveal that “the search for meaning is innate…, occurs through patterning that emotions are critical to these patterns”.
Emotions and Learning
How students feel in the classroom determines the amount of attention they devote to the lesson. It is very important for learners to feel relaxed and safe in the learning environment. Feeling threatened will shut down the learning process, and as Daniel Goleman claims “hijack the rest of the brain”.
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4 Ways Technology is Changing How People Learn - Edudemic
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When we talk about what changes technology has brought to classrooms across the globe, the answers could basically be never ending. Teachers could talk about things like bringing ease to researching all types of topics, bringing organization (and a lack of physical papers to lose) to the classroom, and making connections for professional development. There could be a lot of discussion about the millions of nuances of amelioration brought to classrooms – both physical and virtual. …
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A new way to learn Spanish, through virtual educational platfom with interactive learning materials and one-on-one evaluation by Spanish native teachers in Spain. Courses for children, teenagers & adults. Contact me for more info: [email protected]
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5 Language Learning Concepts You Need to Understand to Raise a Bilingual Child
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How can you help your child become bilingual? Understanding these five concepts will make it much easier!
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An interesting article with tips about how to teach Spanish to children.
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Professional and Personal Online Spanish for Children and Teenagers:
www.spanish-school-herradura.com/online-spanish
After running a Spanish Language School in the South of Spain, teaching foreign families for many years, we have developed Online courses, to make our good quality product available to a lot more children, teenagers and adults. We have developed a virtual platform, with interactive learning materials, blog, fora, online library and online medium, for one-on-one evaluations with qualified Spanish native teachers in Spain. Feel free to contact me for more information: [email protected]
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