In grad school, they told us “you can’t teach people language; you can only put it out there for them to learn.” I wish I could attribute this quote, but Google is giving me nothing.
In any case, what’s behind this quote is a belief that language isn’t taught or learned; it’s not […]
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Here’s a must-see video of Sir Ken Robinson’s speech at the TED conference. (Not sure if it’s from this year or last.) Sir Ken is a tremendously entertaining speaker and passionate advocate for re-thinking how our schools work. He argues, convincingly to my mind, that the traditional educational system, designed for another time and place, was designed […]
Your Favorite ChinesePod Lessons
Published by August 20th, 2007 in ChinesePod and Learning. 14 CommentsAbout two weeks ago ChinesePod crossed the 600 lesson mark. (Sure, if we wanted to, we might also count the 52 Saturday Show episodes or the 27 Extra lessons, but we’re far too modest for that.) For some, such a prolific two years of lesson creation might be cause for tooting one’s own horn, but […]
We get a fair amount of feedback on our belief that lessons should be distinct, non-sequential, learning objects. While we have experimented with linear narratives, such as the lover’s tale on ChinesePod, we produce each lesson with the thinking that it is an individual entity that can be re-mixed by anyone that feels so inclined.
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I’d like to share some insights I’ve had during the 18 months of working pretty intensively with audio.
First of all, I’d make the distinction between listening and hearing. Hearing is involuntary, while listening involves conscious orientation. Listening also requires a tremendous level of of cognitive activity. For example, the brain is forced to filter out the vast […]
Text has dominated learning for 500 years, but no longer…
Here’s a post I meant to link to last week but never got round to. Jeff Jarvis notes how Google plan to include video, photos, and news into their search results. He says:
This promotes other media to the exalted rank of text… You […]
In recent weeks I’ve been thinking about learner autonomy more and more – learning on your terms. Below are some notes I took on the topic, some of them proimpted by Phil Benson’s excellent Teaching and Researching Autonomy in Language Learning.
“The autonomous learner is one that constructs knowledge from direct experience, rather […]
Here Here is the first in a a series of podcasts that I want to call ‘Beyond E Learning’. In this recording I took an impromptu approach to share ideas that have been on my mind.
I believe we’re at the early stages of a learning revolution, the likes of which haven’t […]
Browbeating, seduction, and chaos
Published by April 12th, 2007 in Innovation and Learning. 0 Comments
Bob Garfield has a piece in Advertising Age about the coming chaos in the advertising industry (and the denial amongst many of its executives). It’s a fascinating article, with observations like this:
The online space isn’t remotely developed enough — nor will it be anytime soon — to absorb the advertising budgets of the top […]
Emergent strategies, emergent learning
Published by March 27th, 2007 in Learning and Praxis Language. 0 CommentsJay Cross sees the need for a fluid, dynamic approach to corporate training. The present day knowledge worker is having to learn more, and learn faster than ever before - a situation that will intensify over time. According to Cross, the old, static, one-size-fits-all, training programs are proving hoplessly inadequate in the face […]
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