http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/ Charting a new course for the future of language and language education en-us 2005-03-22T17:48:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/018132.html Introduction The knowledge and innovation age, already upon us, presents new challenges and opportunities for language teachers and learners. The purpose of this essay is to apply key concepts from the field of knowledge and innovation management to the domain... chri1010 2005-03-22T17:48:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/017204.html Download Language and Innovation Here is one powerpoint that demonstrates different types of innovations and their application in language education. Stay tuned for another powerpoint about language, evolution, and innovation.... chri1010 2005-03-04T15:17:53-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/010634.html Here's a little bibliography of things I want to read. It looks like the formatting is a little messed up. I'll have to fix it later. Allee, V. (1997). The knowledge revolution: Expanding organizational intelligence. Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heineman. Amidon, D.... chri1010 2004-11-16T17:35:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/009213.html “Nothing is stranger than the singularity because it is the end of knowledge production as we know it, the end of certainty as we know it…the end of history.” (AH November 6 2006)... Art Harkins' words of wisdom chri1010 2004-11-06T10:52:28-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/008641.html I'm really feeling particularly inspired this week by the work of Robert Logan. A physicist at the University of Toronto, Logan is interested in systems theory and the evolution of language. How's that for transdisciplinarity? I'll post my powerpoint presentation... chri1010 2004-10-28T01:47:21-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/008640.html Language education must begin by acknowledging changes in language and language use. Then, language educators must move quickly to change how languages are taught.... chri1010 2004-10-28T01:39:24-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/007924.html Author Markee, Numa. Title Managing curricular innovation / Numa Markee. Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. Description xi, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series ( Cambridge language teaching library) Availability TC Wilson Library... chri1010 2004-10-18T11:36:12-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/007923.html Higher Education Isn't Meeting the Public's Needs By FRANK NEWMAN, LARA COUTURIER, and JAMIE SCURRY Higher-education leaders, like many Americans, believe that we have the best postsecondary-education system in the world. Yet a dangerous gap is growing between what the... chri1010 2004-10-18T11:28:13-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/007683.html “Innovation is the opposite of the struggle to be interesting.”—Art Harkins... Art Harkins' words of wisdom chri1010 2004-10-14T19:25:01-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/007623.html This week, much of my work on my project has been informal. Last Thursday, I attended the Minnesota Association for Developmental Education, where I presented on technology and language learning. I introduced Prensky's concepts of digital immigrants and digital natives.... chri1010 2004-10-13T23:56:22-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/007086.html I don't feel like I've made a lot of progress on my language innovation paper this last week. However, that doesn't mean I haven't done some pretty impressive things, including submitting a lengthy book chapter for publication. I think I... chri1010 2004-10-06T23:23:41-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/007085.html I've come across Auralog, a website sponsor of a language learning program that uses speech recognition for all four tones in Chinese. It can analyze a learner's pronunciation of Chinese! Pretty impressive, I'd say. Imagine the possibilities!... chri1010 2004-10-06T23:05:44-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/006100.html Tacit knowledge, without the interest or skills to let it out, has no effect on society. (Art Harkins)... Art Harkins' words of wisdom chri1010 2004-09-23T23:03:25-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/005936.html This week, I’ve been reading and thinking a bit about the last chapter in Rogers. In that chapter, he talks about the consequences of innovation, and the example he gives of the introduction of the snowmobile among Lapp people in... chri1010 2004-09-22T01:16:40-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/chri1010/language/005934.html I’ve been thinking quite a bit about paper topics for this class, and I want to focus on my interest in the future of language education. I have been a language educator in various forms for the past ten... chri1010 2004-09-22T01:10:22-06:00