Bryan Garner's advice today is relevant to the project of simplification: "Build your vocabulary to make yourself a better reader; choose simple words whenever possible to make yourself a better writer."
This idea would ...
Garner’s tip of the day
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Silverstein comments (1995) that the inclusion of words like "ink" and "porter" point up the "fierce sociohistorical locatability" of the Basic English 850. This article mentions the idea of semantic primes - developed by ...
keywords, semantic primes,
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Zizek points out the strange kind of double bind that can occur when the hegemonic ideas in a society are precisely those of individual freedom of choice, free speech and tolerance (not that these are bad things in ...
Small group work – The humane teacher forces you to choose a topic.
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Yatskar et al. (2010) have a paper on extracting simplifications automatically from the editing process of Simple English wikipedia. A few points gleaned from that:
about 18,000 people work on Simple English ...
under-researched field…
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My project for this summer involves Simple English wikipedia and the use of English as a foreign language in legal contexts. Some years ago I made a proposal of an open source lexical syllabus but never seemed to have the ...
Sasquatch
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Dave Cormier's concept of Rhizomatic Learning comes from A Thousand Plateaus. However, the problem with the Rhizome is that it resists being pinned down into a form (it is counterposed in the Introduction to the Tree, which ...
#change11 week 9 Rhizomatic Learning
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David Harvey would most likely say that there is nothing new about the flexible personality - since precarious livelihoods have often been part of capitalism. But I think what's new is that "fp" lives in the society of ...
flexible personality, funky business and social change
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Blogging is encouraged for different educational reasons - sometimes as a tool for individual reflection, sometimes as a part of a "constructivist" or "constructionist" pedagogy. I can see the point of both of these ...
is blogging a different sort of banalisation?
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An early question about Moodle 2 for people accustomed to 1 is how to deal with uploading files. Using an ftp client to upload something to the server will lead to problems because now, I suppose for security reasons, all ...
Moodle first steps in moving to 2
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