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Bilingualism and the Brain

Pedagogical Songs

source: eLearning Papers n° 13: Innovation and creativity‏: http://www.elearningpapers.eu/index.php?page=doc&doc_id=13996&doclng=6&lng=en

 

extras from  “Pedagogical Songs: learn by doing game based activities” by Santiago Palacios Navarro, Full-time collaborator-professor , Department of Evolutionary Psychology and Education University of the Basque Country:

“In fact, almost all educators agree that songs are included among their most successful teaching tools. Using music in the second language learning is consistent both with linguistic and psychological theories. According to Krashen (1985), comprehensible input and output are important to the acquisition of a second language. He also claims that affective factors such as motivation, attitude, self-confidence and anxiety will affect the amount of comprehensible input learners receive. Therefore, songs can supply comprehensible input in low anxiety situations. Likewise, songs can be used for different purposes. As Saricoban and Metin (2000) have pointed out, songs can develop the four skill areas of reading, writing, listening, and speaking, which are basic in language learning. According to the theory of multiple intelligences proposed by Gardner (1983), those who have a high level of musical-rhythmic intelligence display greater sensitivity to sounds, rhythms, tunes, and music so they immediately respond to music and they will often use songs or rhythms to learn and memorize information.”

 ” Based on games and online activities developed from the study of a song, the project has been implemented throughout the last six years in the “Educational Psychology” course, taught as part of the Teaching degree specialised in Foreign Language at the University of the Basque Country (Spain).”

 Read the entire article at http://www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media19202.pdf

“iLANDS for innovation in learning”

source:  elearningeuropa.info Newsletter – April 2009‏: http://www.elearningeuropa.info/newsletter/index.php?page=home&nws=64

 

  ”Apart from the skills needed to manage the abundance of information available, learners need additional skills to react to the challenges of a digital society and to counterbalance the deficiencies of their natural learning styles.

Siemens (2006) lists the following skills:

(1) Anchoring: Staying focused on important tasks while undergoing a deluge of distractions;

(2) Filtering: Managing knowledge flow and extracting important elements;

(3) Connecting with each other: Building networks in order to continue to stay current and informed;

(4) Being Human Together: Interacting at a human, not only utilitarian, level to form social spaces.

(5) (6) Creating and Deriving Meaning: Understanding implications, comprehending meaning and impact;

(7) Evaluation and Authentication: Determining the value of knowledge and ensuring authenticity;

(8) Altered Processes of Validation: Validating people and ideas within appropriate context;

(9) Critical and Creative Thinking;

(10) Pattern Recognition;

(11) Navigate Knowledge Landscape: Navigating between repositories, people, technology, and ideas while achieving intended purposes;

(12) Acceptance of Uncertainty: Balancing what is known with the unknown to see how existing knowledge relates to what we do not know;

(13) Contextualizing: Understanding the prominence of context, seeing continuums, ensuring that key contextual issues are not overlooked in context-games.”

extras from the study “Review of Learning 2.0 Practices: Study on the Impact of Web 2.0 Innovations on Education and Training in Europe” by  Christine Redecker/ European Commission;  Joint Research Centre; Institute for Prospective Technological Studies; http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu; http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu; JRC 49108; EUR 23664 EN; ISSN: 1018-5593; Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities; © European Communities, 2009

read more at http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC49108.pdf