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Here's a resource which may grow in importance over the years. BlogScholar is an "academic blogging portal".

When I have the time, I'm going to take a closer look at all the resources I've found (mainly by referral, of course), plot how they work (together and apart) and explore how they fit into SSwID (or primitive SSwID).

http://spajde.targeteil.org:80/?q=node/71

Here's a resource which may grow in importance over the years. BlogScholar is an "academic blogging portal".

When I have the time, I'm going to take a closer look at all the resources I've found (mainly by referral, of course), plot how they work (together and apart) and explore how they fit into SSwID (or primitive SSwID).

http://spajal.targeteil.org:80/?q=node/10

Monday night I called my wife to see if we had enough money lying around for me to buy a reference book, How Children Learn Language by William O'Grady. I wanted to increase my understanding of childhood language learning, because although I'm mainly interested in teaching teens and adults, I do occasionally teach children and it is usually very frustrating.

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Some would even argue that states of mind--even leaps of the imagination--are similarly quantized. There is rarely a continuous transition from one idea or state to the next. (As Einstein said, "There comes a point where the mind takes a leap--call it intuition or what you will--and comes out on a higher plane of knowledge.") K.C. Cole, First You Build a Cloud, p. 120, par. 1

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I was reminded today of the kind of learner I used to be.

Back in grade twelve I dropped algebra, because I didn't get trigonometry, and physics, because I didn't get grade twelve algebra (despite getting B+s in grade 11). Fifteen years later I picked up a university algebra primer and found I could not only get all the math, I could even derive formulae. What happened?

I had long suspected a change in my brain. How else could I have gone from clueless to clued in without a whiff of algebra for fifteen years? At seventeen, I wasn't ready for trigonometry. At thirty-two I was.

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http://spajal.targeteil.org:80/?q=node/11

I was reminded today of the kind of learner I used to be.

Back in grade twelve I dropped algebra, because I didn't get trigonometry, and physics, because I didn't get grade twelve algebra (despite getting B+s in grade 11). Fifteen years later I picked up a university algebra primer and found I could not only get all the math, I could even derive formulae. What happened?

I had long suspected a change in my brain. How else could I have gone from clueless to clued in without a whiff of algebra for fifteen years? At seventeen, I wasn't ready for trigonometry. At thirty-two I was.

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