Archive for October, 2008
08-10-31
Tags:Education Linguistics Paperville Research: Phonics abstracts Farrar, J., Ashwell, S. & Maag, L. (2005). The emergence of phonological awareness: Connections to language and theory of mind development. First Language, 25(2), 157-172. The emergence of phonological awareness was examined in a longitudinal study. Two issues were of particular interest: (1) the relationship between phonological […]
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08-10-28
Tags:Education Accountability, Assessments and Transparency
Fact sheets
Public School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services
A Uniform, Comparable Graduation Rate
Live Event - South Carolina ETV
On Tuesday, October 28, at 12:00 noon ET in Columbia, South Carolina, Secretary Spellings will issue final Title I regulations to strengthen the No Child Left Behind Act, including requirements that states implement a uniform graduation […]
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08-10-28
Tags:Computing Research Watch List Am I reading it correctly? So Google is in Amazon’s business of selling books, or even better, fulltext of books. You get 20% preview, and unlimited access after you buy it?
Will Google come up with something better than Kindle? I hope not. I hope everything will be in PDF, but […]
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08-10-27
Tags:Computing Watch List CouchDB is an Apache project that implements a flexible schema-free database. Most interestingly, it supports JSON API, RESTful API, and a distributed model whereby multiple servers can have independent copies of the same data and can be synchronized bi-directionally.
Planet CouchDB
Announcing "Relax with CouchDB" by O’ReillyI am happy to announce that Noah Slater, J. Chris […]
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(Computing, Watch List) | 0
08-10-25
Tags:brain Education psychology reading
Really?
Do you really believe we are not born to read? Are we born NOT to read? Are we born to speak, then?
Speaking and reading are both emerging functions from what "we are born with" AND what we have acquired so far. I am no biologist but I suspect most biological […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Psychology, Education) | 0
08-10-21
Tags:Computing Exactly a month ago I blogged about Chris’ online game Flitta. If he hadn’t patented it, it’s too late. Picasa Web Albums now has a game called where in the world.
Check out photos from around the world and guess where they were taken!
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08-10-18
Tags:Chinese English eye movement Linguistics orthography Paperville phonology psychology Research Looking at the title and abstract, I wonder why this one is published on JEP:HPP
Are phonological representations of printed and spoken language isomorphic? Evidence from the restrictions on unattested onsets. Pages 1288-1304 Berent, Iris Are […]
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(Research, Paperville, Psychology, Linguistics) | 0
08-10-15
Tags: Ok, can you talk about evolution without reproduction and natural selection?
Guess you can. According to this Newsweek.com quote of UCLA neuroscientist Gary Small,
"Perhaps not since early man first discovered how to use a tool has the human brain been affected so quickly and so dramatically," he writes. "As the brain evolves and shifts its focus towards […]
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08-10-11
Tags:Computing Education Of course my lab is not the only ReadingLab around. Xerox owns the domain theReadingLab.com, which actually has some interesting (though outdated) information on some of their projects, for example,
The Reading Lab:Listen Reader
The Listen Reader is a personal interactive reading experience that combines the look and feel of a real book - a […]
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(Computing, Odds'n'Ends, Education) | 0
08-10-10
Tags:Education NCLB psy145 Teaching If you followed my last a couple of posts (here, and here) back in May, you are due for an update. Now the interim report is superceded by this final report, which found something positive to report.
By that I don’t mean the finding that RF schools spend more time […]
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08-10-02
Tags:Education Paperville Research Teaching I am quoting the closing paragraph, which I wish I could use to conclude a paper I am writing.
Although storybook reading remains the single most extensively researched aspect of the field of emergent literacy, still much is to be discovered about how exactly children acquire knowledge during this activity. […]
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