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Archive for September, 2007
Chinese is increasingly the language of global business. The world’s most spoken language is also the language of the world’s hottest economy, and knowledge of Mandarin is quickly becoming an essential skill in the repertoire of modern businesspeople.
The ChinesePod Practice Plan perfectly complements the portable ChinesePod lessons, providing reinforcement of material already learned and […]
Is knowledge delivered or constructed?
Published by September 18th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 21 Comments
One of the questions discussed at Learning 2.0 was this: Is knowledge delivered or constructed? Let’s take a look at it.
Delivering knowledge
Traditionally, the task of the educator was to deliver knowledge: teachers took pre-packaged data and dispensed it to learners. Teachers were active, if not dominant (dispeners) while students were passive (receptacles).
Obviously, data can be delivered. Books have done an incredibly good […]
The recent learning 2.0 conference included a number of ‘unconference’ sessions - free-form discussion groups that set their own agendas, rather than pre-ordained powerpoint presentations. I had been a bit skeptical about how these might work in practice. I thought they might lack focus. In fact, the sessions worked really well. Instead of just listening, […]
This weekend sees the Learning 2.0 conference at the Concordia International school in Shanghai. The focus of the 3-day event is ‘Communication, Collaboration, Connection’ and how web 2.0 will affect learning. This Ning site offers lots of information and insights from the event.
I went along with ChinesePod sound engineer, David Xu, who recorded the opening session (Fri […]
One of the things that first drew me to FireFox a few years ago was its integrated search box. Being able to search Google or Yahoo without actually going to the page was a huge improvement, and has probably saved me hundreds of hours over the years. Now we’ve brought a little of that functionality […]
The ChinesePod Integrated Chinese Blog
Published by September 6th, 2007 in ChinesePod, Features and Integrated Learning. 0 CommentsIn case you haven’t caught word of it in News and Features, there’s a new blog in ChinesePod town (wow, where did that come from??), and it is the ChinesePod Integrated Chinese Blog!
In case you haven’t heard of it, Integrated Chinese (IC) is perhaps the most widely used textbook in the Chinese language programs of […]
ChinesePod and SpanishSense Class of ‘08
Published by September 4th, 2007 in Praxis Language. 32 CommentsFor most university students, learning languages means attending lectures and reading textbooks, and trying to memorize different grammar points and tons of vocabulary. But here in Praxis Language, we believe that it can be so much more than that! Combined with our podcasts and myriad of study tools available on our websites (Cpod and SpanishSense), […]
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