Archive for January 22nd, 2007

Early Language Learning: Good or Bad?

January 22, 2007Troy Hicks 2 Comments »

USA Today featured an article on a growing trend, as well as personal and professional interest of mine: early language immersion:

Azure Warrenfeltz is fluent in Japanese and Spanish. She also can understand bits of French, German, Arabic and Italian, and she soon hopes to learn some Mandarin Chinese.

Azure is 4 years old.
“I’m smarter than my [...]

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Visions of Technology In English

January 22, 2007Troy Hicks No Comments »

Tomorrow, I will be working with a colleague’s class of pre-service English teachers. He asked me to “offer this group is a vision or several visions of what is possible regarding technology and writing” and I can think of a few, but there are two rolling around in my mind right now.
First, I return to [...]

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