tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072440028440011959.post3371697130832812896..comments2024-03-20T04:06:14.857-04:00Comments on Education Outrage: all opinions all the time aided by technologyRoger Schankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567989582447087635noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072440028440011959.post-70507172923933169822009-09-03T03:09:14.768-04:002009-09-03T03:09:14.768-04:00My nearly-3 year old son is just starting kindy in...My nearly-3 year old son is just starting kindy in Hong Kong, and I've put him in the Cantonese stream. My husband and I speak very little Cantonese (he's English-educated Korean and I'm Australian). But I decided 'this is the year' for me to learn Cantonese too, and be my son's learning partner. (I'm an ESL/EFL teacher). Actually, I started off teaching him, two months ago, now i really need to keep up. <br /><br />Point: Since he started kindy last week, he won't put down my iPhone, but he no longer plays 'Monkeyball', he's using it as student-controlled learning resource. The touch screen puts it entirely in his control. I've loaded on some kid-targeted animated character 'flash cards', some adult resources, and some multi lingual piture books (he can select the story in english, spanish or cantonese). I can't find any video, but i'll make some. <br /><br />It's so empowering for him that i'm going to go buy him an ipod touch (so i can get my phone back). <br /><br />I love watching him. He'll play the same card 5 times, then flip through the rest. He'll run the story in English then in Cantonese twice. He'll go backwards through the story for a while then forwards again. He knows what he's doing, what he's selecting. Unlike with adult-controlled interactions, he can select topics, demand repetition, move one when he's had enough. <br /><br />It's hard to find Cantonese stuff, most resources are for Putonghua, I've started hassling developers. <br /><br />I keep catching myself feeling suspicious, he's 'playing a computer game', am i a bad mother? No one else is doing this. Will he go blind? But then I watch what he's doing, and it makes total sense to me as a language learner and a teacher. So I just keep being his partner, and we see what we can find. <br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJbPFHGLepUTanyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15770419887902487359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072440028440011959.post-86221436715760215922009-07-16T10:51:47.657-04:002009-07-16T10:51:47.657-04:00au contraire!:
http://www.google.com/educators/i...au contraire!: <br /><br />http://www.google.com/educators/index.html~~~https://www.blogger.com/profile/18178577825270275031noreply@blogger.com