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IMAGE: The Young Men s League of Guam presented the University of Guam with a $25,000 grant on March 3 to develop an online open-access database for CHamoru language-learning resources. (From left). view more
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Recognizing the need to make instructional resources about the CHamoru language and culture more accessible to the community, Inetnon Lalåhen Guåhan the Young Men s League of Guam presented the University of Guam with a $25,000 grant on March 3 to develop an online open-access database for such resources.
The multi-phased project will include:
collecting, organizing, and digitizing CHamoru language and culture learning resources that have been produced over the last 50 years;
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BUFFALO, N.Y. - A University at Buffalo researcher s recent work on dyslexia has unexpectedly produced a startling discovery which clearly demonstrates how the cooperative areas of the brain responsible for reading skill are also at work during apparently unrelated activities, such as multiplication.
Though the division between literacy and math is commonly reflected in the division between the arts and sciences, the findings suggest that reading, writing and arithmetic, the foundational skills informally identified as the three Rs, might actually overlap in ways not previously imagined, let alone experimentally validated. These findings floored me, said Christopher McNorgan, PhD, the paper s author and an assistant professor in UB s Department of Psychology. They elevate the value and importance of literacy by showing how reading proficiency reaches across domains, guiding how we approach other tasks and solve other problems.
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IMAGE: At school reopenings due to the Covid-19 pandemic, teachers need a way of quickly assessing first graders for retained math knowledge. Here Refilwe Ntsoane, Head of Department Foundation Phase, is. view more
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First grade teachers can find out who is on track with math and who is lagging, using an accurate diagnostic test that they can administer in the classroom.
After Covid-19 school reopening, or during catch-up sessions in the holidays, this is instrument can also be useful, especially in large, multilingual classrooms.
The test is supplemented by a 15-week 1-hour-a week maths boost invention program for first graders.
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ften, humans display biases, i.e., unconscious tendencies towards a type of decision. Despite decades of study, we are yet to discover why biases are so persistent in all types of decisions. Biases can help us make better decisions when we use them correctly in an action that has previously given us great reward. However, in other cases, biases can play against us, such as when we repeat actions in situations when it would be better not to , says Rubén Moreno Bote, coordinator of the UPF Theoretical and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory.
In these cases, decisions are guided by tendencies, or inclinations, that do not benefit our wellbeing. For example, playing the lottery more regularly after winning a small consolation prize is a common bias that unfortunately does not tend to improve our financial situation.
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IMAGE: Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a digital self-test that trains users to assess news items, images and videos presented on social media. view more
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Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a digital self-test that trains users to assess news items, images and videos presented on social media. The self-test has also been evaluated in a scientific study, which confirmed the researchers hypothesis that the tool genuinely improved the students ability to apply critical thinking to digital sources.
The new tool and the scientific review of it are part of the News Evaluator project to investigate new methods of enhancing young people s capacity for critical awareness of digital sources, a key component of digital literacy.