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什麼是「廣泛視聽＆閱讀」？ (Extensive Viewing & Reading)

What is EXTENSIVE READING, and why (and how) should you do it?

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廣泛閱讀（Extensive Reading）是一種完全不同於正規學校上課模式的學習策略，而近來因資訊化媒體的發達，廣泛視聽（Extensive Viewing）也開始流行。其核心概念非常簡單：「在利用英語去理解 ( Comprehend ) 的過程中，學習者自然而然就能取得（acquire）語言能力，不需要特意去記憶與學習（memorize & learn）」。傳統教育方法要求學習者去記憶英語單字與文法知識，而廣泛閱讀/視聽則是要培養語感反射記憶，讓學習者真正擁有語言能力！

Peer Review in Elsevier

最近獲邀幫 Elsevier 審論文，本文蒐集重點筆記供大家參考。

weChallengeEducation

I JUST SUED THE SCHOOL SYSTEM !!!

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After all the blood, sweat and tears, I find it too difficult to introduce innovation into Education. Even via renowned professors, like Prof. Krashen, little can be achieved. That’s the very reason criticism on Education still gets tons of attention from the public.

And that explains why the window of opportunity is still open, as a challenge calling for the brave. The activist organization–weChallengeEducation–thus, is born today.

P.S. The name “weChallengeEducation” is formatted in camel style like iPhone and eBay–which lowercases the first character and combine all the other words as capital letters into one word.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case

Steve Jobs–從小就是個壞學生

History of Steve Jobs Full Documentary

香香蕉，最棒的語言學習體驗(ง •̀_•́)ง

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改變世界的那個男人，Steve Jobs，描述自己小時候的故事，對身為人師的筆者有點太衝擊了，特此記錄。影片中談到 Jobs 小時覺得學校太無聊，所以常常受處罰，甚至 played pranks on others（罷凌！？）。後來小學四年級時，有個老師告訴他 “I’ll give you 5 bucks if you finish it [workbook].” 對於這兩個小故事，以下為筆者心得。