Bethany
@bbovard.bsky.social
geek, educator, language learning enthusiast, instructional designer
I had hours of transcribed speaking practice and also writing practice to wade through and thought, "let's see what AI has to say..." It gave me a list of my three biggest errors. Two were no surprise; one was not obvious to me. #AI #languagelearning
Unpopular opinion? If your class design is structured in a way that depends on student preparation before class in order to do in-class activities, then require accountability for that prep work. #coursedesign #teaching #highered
OPINIÓN | La inmersión lingüística en Cataluña: sin ruido, desde dentro
La inmersión lingüística en Cataluña: sin ruido, desde dentro
La inmersión lingüística en Cataluña no es una bandera. Es una herramienta. Y como todas las herramientas, no se entiende desde fuera ni desde el ruido, sino desde lo que hace cuando toca realidad.
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A _HUGE_ benefit of taking classes this summer: expanded access to articles I'd otherwise have to pay for. As someone who tends to read a lot of journal articles, etc. from academia, this is a benefit I can't quantify. also...thinking of access issues in general but that's another story...
woo hoo! 🎉 historical linguists research paper outline accepted! Now on to actually doing what I said I would do. 🤔🤭
I chose to take some classes 'for fun' as a birthday gift to myself: I'm thinking my past self has some explaining to do! As I teach 2 classes, I'm taking #historicallinguistics - fun, exciting, tons of work! #arabic - a semester crammed into 7 short summer weeks; exciting, fun, crazy workload!
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It's definitely a port and chocolate kind of problem set. I'm more of a paleography girl, but I can see how this might be fun - given enough time to comprehend all the crazy little bits and bobs. It is certainly making me think about language learning in a new way.
I uttered the dreaded "at my age..." phrase. NOOOOOO. It was said in the context of "I need to focus on X, not Y or Z, so I have time to use what I'm learning." I love exploring as many things as possible, but I am feeling pressed for time given cultural attitudes about age/working. <sigh>
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Anyone remember a popular kid's book (series?) from the 60s (I think) about a boy who solves codes w/ his friends? I remember reading because of the codes, but can't remember anything else. ANYWAY... today I felt like him as I worked on this fun learning project for historical linguistics class.
🧪🧵 🪰 🐜🪲🐞🦗🐛🦋🪳🦟 How many species of insect are there? A seemingly simple question, but one that has been 'bugging' scientists for years. Our work out today suggests that there are millions more than we had previously expected. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @gdfcf.bsky.social
my preferred use of #AI is for practicing clarifying my arguments. e.g. I say "here's what I'm thinking" & #AI goes off on some weird tangent & I say "No... I meant X. Reassess your feedback based on my clarifications..." and so on. #GIGO so - less 'garbage in' on my part 😂
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My music player is like a little time machine, taking me back to 2-3 decades ago - basically the last time I was 'tuned in' to the music scene. Snapshot: - Cheryl Wheeler - Dar Williams - Ani DiFranco - Damien Rice - Duncan Sheik - John Mayer - Anna Nalick - Dido - Catie Curtis
#arabic - because I don't have enough challenges with the variants of the various vowel sounds in (Michigan) English...
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I may... _may_ have miscalculated the amount of time for #grading this #assignment. Ok. I definitely miscalculated! Time to break out the Port and Chocolate! That always makes for a fun grading time.
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In my 'day job' I chat w/ many faculty about their #coursedesigns & teaching. I enjoy this because it gives me ideas for my own courses! Plus, as supporter of #highered, it gives me warm fuzzies to see how other faculty care about their students. 🥳
My personal research into using #ai for #languagelearning continues. Today was just another basic comparison of two well-known general AI tools to see how well they could generate some practice quizzes based on specific textbook content. The results were... less than optimal. :)
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I'm excited because I have a great #arabic language teacher! Today is our first class and it has been amazing so far.
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Cómo la saturación informativa nos ha hecho perder la lectura profunda y qué hacer para recuperarla theconversation.com/como-la-satu... @es.theconversation.com
Cómo la saturación informativa nos ha hecho perder la lectura profunda y qué hacer para recuperarla
La saturación informativa y la polarización fomentan lecturas rápidas y reactivas y dificultan dificultan la comprensión.
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I think I'm going to have to designate weekends as "analog days." or something... In my #languagelearning I find myself straddling the analog/digital divide because of writing practice v. typing practice, sentence writing practice v. note taking, etc.
Today's convo group for #languagelearning practice was fun! What started as a general "summer adventures" discussion ended as a #comparativepolitics discussion. Our discussants are from/have family in China, Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, England, France, and the US. It was informative and engaging.
I always liked was using image prompts for #languagelearning activities so for this weekend's language discussion group I put together three 'summer adventure' images (plus some potential vocab and discussion questions etc.) I hope it goes well!
I just had one of those "omg, #textbooks are freaking expensive!" moments. As someone who tries to utilize #OER to reduce costs, I'm a bit
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Scientists have almost cracked the secret language of animals. Here’s what they’ve learned www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...
LAST CALL to join our monthly Wikipedia editing training workshop tomorrow. 1.45-5pm in the Ed Uni Main Library and online on Teams. This month we're marking Mental Health Awareness with our suggested pages to edit themed on Mental Health on Screen. Open to all! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mental-hea...
While I could easily cobble something together myself, I decided to try #plaudai for my #languagelearning reflections and for capturing my speaking practice. It seems like it could be useful - and also have potential downsides.
I love exploring #languagelearning options - from various modalities and methods to different approaches and tasks/activities - across different languages. This has been a life-long hobby so I have had the opportunity to explore quite a few options.
Working on #sla #languagelearning journal entry coding for metacognitive and metamotivational themes... I forgot how much I love qualitative analysis of this type. I got started on this so I could develop my own journal template, but it's turning into a whole other thing.
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“Academic science is not only about productivity but also deep understanding, creative solutions & training critical thinkers as next generation of researchers. Now is the time for our community to evaluate whether AI products help or hinder these.“ @lmesseri.bsky.social & @mjcrockett.bsky.social🧪👇
The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails
Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained.
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