Language, the internet, news media and tv, mobile devices and phones, communications technology
Many words that should be important to us in modern times have lost their true meaning or their meaning has changed through misuse or ignorance. Words in general use are becoming more important as society wakes up to its state of humanity and value systems, and we voice our concerns and articulate our grievances with those have […]
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Glossary of language education terms Glossary Accuracy Producing language with few errors. Achievement test A test to measure what students have learned or achieved from a program of study; should be part of every language program and be specific to the goals and objectives of a specific language course. These tests must be flexible […]
Our divided brains are far more complex and remarkable than a left/right split The notion that the brain’s right hemisphere is responsible for emotion and its left hemisphere is responsible for reason has been debunked. But the two hemispheres are indeed distinct, albeit in much more complex ways than we once thought. Animated by Cognitive […]
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‘Back in the day’, in news offices around the world, we were rather proud of ourselves as keepers of the flame, not only of news but of putting ourselves out there to tell it. Now that the tools are readily available on the internet everyone wants to have their say or ‘tell’. But a consequence of everyone having […]
More helpful advice at: http://joshshipp.com/get-started Young people today live a huge portion of their lives online. According to a recent study from the Pew Research Center, 92 percent of teens report going online daily—including 24 percent who say they go online “almost constantly.” Why so much online activity? The accessibility of smartphones, of course. Fully 91 […]
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THE EMOTIONARY • A dictionary of words that don’t exist for feelings that do written by The Middle actress Eden Sher and illustrated by acclaimed graphic novelist Julia Wertz. All her life, Eden Sher has suffered from dyscommunicatia (n. the inability to articulate a feeling through words.). Then, one day, she decided that, whenever she […]
According to Quincy Larson’s analysis, these words were most common among the titles of top Medium articles. How – People – Design – My – Life Also suggested was to include the tags Startup, Tech, Life Lessons, Entrepreneurship, and Design. • So here goes – Seven minutes of How People Design My Life; engineered to specification. This […]
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KIDS TALK GENDER – SOURCE: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Nine-year-olds: They’re smack in the middle of childhood but old enough to have sage views on gender. Here, kids from all over the world share what they like about being boys and girls—and what they wish could be different. • In Their Words: How Children Are Affected by […]