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New spaces for teaching, learning and supervision
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"One form of the word "internet" is advancing over the other, and will ultimately win out ..." 
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"Parents concerned their children are offering to GNOC and give away their ASL will be able to decode social media using a language guide launched by government ..."
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"After discovering that students don’t share his passion for the playwright’s command of language, a professor concludes that all’s well that ends well ..."
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"If we want students to be well prepared for the 21st century, then we should be teaching coding in school ..."
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"Including new forms of social media terms which older Britons do not understand ..."
Janika Pannel's curator insight,
May 4, 2015 1:59 PM
Sotsiaalmeedia areng on toonud kaasa palju uusi sõnu, lühendeid ja termineid, millest vanemad inimesed aru ei saa. Noortel on tekkimas uus keel, millest ainult nemad aru saavad. Kindlasti teate, mis tähendab OMG või LOL. Aga kas te teate, mis tähendab LMK, RN või "thirsty"?
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"Italians are increasingly speaking their mother tongue poorly and a decline in the teaching of Latin is a major factor, writes Silvia Marchetti ..."
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'"The college dropout now has an entire college course in his honor. Here's why, and what you'd learn ..."
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"It seems 2014 was the year of ‘photobombing’ and ‘oversharing’ in English, but what about in Spanish, German and French? ..."
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"The new Google Translate app will automatically recognise if someone is speaking a popular language and automatically turn it into written text ..."
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'There are a lot of interesting things that Internet-and-smartphone-based communication have done to language, from the ubiquitous and polarizing text-speak to tons of ways to learn new languages online. But will the connected age help us move beyond language as we know it? Some people think that emoji could revolutionize how we communicate. Let's take a look ..."
analise moreno's curator insight,
November 30, 2014 6:48 PM
I dont think that emojis are different in other languages because emojis are universal . They are the same on evey cell phone they might just symbolize something different. 
Sydney Richards's curator insight,
December 1, 2014 6:15 PM
WOW. I love emojis, I use them daily, from texting to snapchat to twitter. I often use emojis to show how I really feel about things, because when I text, I can't show my emotions or facial expressions without describing them. Emojis show what we are trying to say, and to say that emojis are transcending language barriers is true. I could send an emoji of heart eyes to someone in Germany, and they probably know that that means something or they're hot or attractive. A picture speaks a thousand words, I think an emoji speaks for a hundred.
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"To mark European Day of Languages, submit a picture of an everyday item and tell us what it’s called in your home language ..."
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"By plenty of measures, 2015 has been a banner year for emojis. A Welsh professor declared them the fastest growing language in the U.K ..."
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"A New York Times article points out that many languages have creative names for the @ symbol. The Dutch refer to it as a monkey’s tail. For Italians, it’s a snail. But in boring old English, we just say “at.” Let’s get creative ..."
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"As with so many of the technologies that are now part of our digital furniture, one of Twitter's most famous features - the 140 character limit - was incidental and also largely accidental ..."
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"With forensic linguistics, researchers aim to use online harassers' and criminals' own words against them ..."
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"Remember when everyone was worried that text-speak was killing the English language? ..."
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"English grammar is something that is treasured by everyone. We all want to improve on our grammar skills so that we are able to communicate with some level ..."
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"...Fluency in English requires the mastery of 4,000 to 5,000 new and unfamiliar words. That’s a long process. By contrast, learning math should be much easier ..."
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"There are so many programming languages to choose from if you want to learn to code or continue your programming journey. This collection of free programming books introduces 24 languages, from C to Scheme ..."
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"There is something about GIFs that captures our attention. They have no sound, and are low-quality . In a way, it's little more than the digital version of a flip-book. Yet, the Internet loves using a GIF as a reaction. How did this phenomenon start, what makes it so popular, and where is it headed? To understand …"
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"Scans and neuroscience are helping scientists understand what happens to the brain when you learn a second language ..."
analise moreno's curator insight,
November 30, 2014 6:42 PM
I do believe that learning a new language does make an impact on your brain because it is storing more information but I do not beliive that it makes your brain larger. 
Tandoo Barcelona's curator insight,
December 2, 2014 5:09 AM
How much languages do you speak? Did you know that learning knew languages can increase the size of your brain? Read this interesting articla to find out more! (Stefanie) |
