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Mind, Brain, and Education is the first in a nine paper series from JFF called Students at the Center. Via Lynnette Van Dyke, Evdokia Roka, Wendi Pillars 
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The persistence of social media is certainly changing how things are done. In a matter of minutes, you can wish an old friend happy birthday on Facebook, find a recipe for dinner on Pinterest, watch a how-to project on YouTube, and get up to the minute updates on events from Twitter. But social media isn’t just changing how we act; it’s actually changing our brains as well. Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge, Wendi Pillars
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A recent study published in Psychological Science found that the pen is mightier than the keyboard when it comes to remembering what you just jotted down.
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Bad headline; good story Via Jim Lerman
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Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident -- can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success. Via Trude Burnett, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
Trude Burnett's curator insight,
May 28, 2015 1:28 PM
The scariest moment I ever experienced was running my first IEP meeting solo (running in close second is Parent/ Teacher Conferences). "Posing" would have been helpful! I do it all the time now.
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In this video, Nadine Gaab, PhD, makes the case that people who can detect tiny differences among sounds have better reading and executive function.
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This is a list of web sites that could be appropriate for use in an introductory phonetics course; most of these sites include audio, images, or interactive material. The list includes a number of items from the list of phonetics sites compiled by Karen Steffen Chung (see LINGUIST Listposts 11.1812, 11.1869, and 11.1964). It also includes other sites that have been discussed on the LINGUIST list, sites I have found from web searches, and sites that people have told me about. Many thanks to the people and organizations who designed the sites that appear on this list and made their work available on the web. If you find any broken links, please let me know (). I would also welcome suggestions for links to add to this page. This page was chosen as Speechwoman's Speech-Language Pathology Site of the Month for May 2011! Via YouyaTralaLing, Jonathan Acuña
Itzel Chavez S.'s curator insight,
June 21, 2015 12:01 AM
In case you want to explore more on your own, it will be very interesting for you to check this website because there are many links to online materials you can benefit from.
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Greg Downey's curator insight,
February 26, 2013 6:24 PM
"The limbic brain is most responsible for value judgments, and it is the limbic brain that plays the key role in all nonverbal communication. A fact which explains why (even though there are many culturally-influenced body language signals) an athlete’s nonverbal display of victory and defeat, and all other limbic-induced body language signals, are the same around the world." Again, interesting research, but man I wish we could write about them without referring to the 'repetilian brain' stuff. Is it really that hard to understand conserved brain function without resorting to the idea that there are three brains?
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Greg Downey's curator insight,
February 26, 2013 6:24 PM
"The limbic brain is most responsible for value judgments, and it is the limbic brain that plays the key role in all nonverbal communication. A fact which explains why (even though there are many culturally-influenced body language signals) an athlete’s nonverbal display of victory and defeat, and all other limbic-induced body language signals, are the same around the world." Again, interesting research, but man I wish we could write about them without referring to the 'repetilian brain' stuff. Is it really that hard to understand conserved brain function without resorting to the idea that there are three brains?
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"There’s nothing more irritating to a pedant’s ear and nothing more flabbergasting than realizing you’ve been pronouncing the name of so many places wrong, your entire life! Despite the judgment we exhibit toward people who err in enunciating, we all mispronounce a word from time to time, despite our best efforts. Well, now it’s time we can really stop mispronouncing the following places."
Kristen McDaniel's curator insight,
February 20, 2015 11:37 AM
So interesting! I knew Louisville, only because my husband of almost 18 years is from there and taught me very early in our relationship that it was "Luh-vull". ha! 
Savannah Rains's curator insight,
March 24, 2015 3:14 AM
This fun article is telling people about common places that we butcher the names of. Some of the reasons that we say them wrong is because they are in different languages so we shouldn't be pronouncing everything perfectly. But the ones that we say everyday like Colorado, is because we ALL mispronounce it so it becomes the norm. This article really sheds some light on the way that languages can be misinterpreted or changed because of people. 
Claire Law's curator insight,
April 26, 2015 2:16 AM
I love discovering I've mispronounced a word, particularly place names. Most of these are in the US but the few international examples are interesting (and the mispronounced variations are perplexing, perhaps we're blessed in Australia with journalists who can pronounce tricky foreign toponyms). I'm surprised Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) and Uluru (NT, Australia) don't make the list.
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Invented Languages: Klingon and Beyond “I wanted to start teaching this course because I wanted a way to engage students in linguistics without having to Via Charles Tiayon
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Collinswood Language Academy's experiences with two-way language learning illustrate why North Carolina state education officials are sold on the idea.
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Mark Liberman at Language Log has had several posts lately about gender and age effects of “uh” and “um” and other words. There’s basic summary of them, with graphs, from the Atlantic: Via YouyaTralaLing
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Out with the old, in with the new.
"as the target memory was recalled more often, brain activity for it increased. Meanwhile, brain activity for the competing memory simultaneously weakened." Via Mel Riddile
Mel Riddile's curator insight,
June 7, 2015 4:31 PM
The only certainty about learning is forgetting.
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Brain Remembers Language Better If You Sing It Via Evdokia Roka, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
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Shona Whyte:
483 accents of English - audio files for the same text, male and female speakers from a variety of English-speaking countries plus non-natives.
Great for phonetics/phonology practice, or just demonstrating phonological variation to dispel the myth that there's one "standard" pronunciation. Via Shona Whyte, Jonathan Acuña
Olaf Husby's curator insight,
September 18, 2014 11:24 AM
Vi arbeider med å lage noe slikt for norsk ...
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Whether you want to learn a new language, learn to cook, or just get more out of the books you read, it helps to know how your brain learns. Via Cultural Infusion
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Greg Downey's curator insight,
February 27, 2013 3:23 PM
"Although backers of this supposed universal alphabet claim that "it will make pronunciation easy and foster international understanding", I have doubts that SaypU (Spell As You Pronounce Universal project) constitutes a viable route to world peace." But Douglas Adams has alread warned us about the potential in The Hitchhiker's Guide: "The Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
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"Are you an eLearning Developer or a Designer in anyways? Have you ever wondered why you are not able to find some creative ideas to implement a solution during the peak hours of your work? Are you forced to work on multiple projects in a day and ending up with less productivity or more errors? There are few surprising brain facts about how our brain works." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
Ruth Virginia Barton's curator insight,
October 10, 2015 7:24 AM
Surprising and paradoxical brain facts; for instance, our brains work better after a night's sleep, even just a few hours. AND, our brains work better when they are tired and fuzzy, because then we are more susceptible to distractions, which can help us think outside the box and come up with creative solutions!
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The LINGUIST List issue 25.4490, topic: Jobs, title: Jobs: English; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics: Speech Data Evaluator, Google Via YouyaTralaLing
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Practice foreign languages for free by reading news, watching videos, and listening to music. Sign up for account adapted to your level and interests. Via Nik Peachey
Anne-Marie Armstrong's curator insight,
June 1, 2014 11:19 AM
Foreign language is not only a useful skill, it improves your cognition and this method involves meta-cognition 
José Antonio Gutiérrez Flores's curator insight,
June 11, 2014 1:10 PM
Este es un sitio muy útil para el auto-aprendizaje, sólo se necesita estar motivado. Puedes elegir entre una gran variedad de contenidos, que se irán adaptando a tus intereses. El proceso de aprendizaje se basa principalmente en ir conociendo nuevo vocabulario que se va guardando en listas de palabras mientras se está navegando y disfrutando de contenido. Incluye canciones, letras y películas completas. |
MBE helps us understand how deeply emotion and other environmental factors affect learning - something teachers have known for years but now have science to back it up!