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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was just talking to another professor today about how the students barely have enough attention span to read a paragraph. Excerpted readings are getting shorter and shorter. They claim they don't understand all the words and don't bother to look them up in the dictionary. It's bad.[/quote] I was on a curriculum committee for elementary reading. The curriculum experts from the school system explained to us that there were many ways to learn vocabulary, but that the one way that didn’t work was to look up words in a dictionary. They thought the best way for kids to learn words was to act them out. This included abstract concepts like contemplation. The next day I taught my kids how to use a dictionary because I knew they weren’t going to learn at school. [/quote] My elementary schooler uses her Apple Watch to ask Siri word definitions when she comes across something in a book that she doesn’t know. Seems to work for her. Sad that college students can’t figure this out. [/quote]
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