{"id":389,"date":"2007-08-25T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/25\/dictionary-the-old-school-way\/"},"modified":"2007-08-25T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T19:49:17","slug":"dictionary-the-old-school-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/25\/dictionary-the-old-school-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Dictionary &#8211; The Old School Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m helping one of my kids with some Spanish homework.\u00a0 She didn&#8217;t know which definition of a word was correct.\u00a0 I have never had Spanish, but I know how to use several translator web sites.\u00a0 My daughter says they are not permitted to use a web site to look up words.\u00a0 They have to use a paper dictionary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/loco.png\" alt=\"loco.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is crazy.\u00a0 Why should students be forced to use the old-fashioned slow way to look up words in a paper dictionary?\u00a0 It takes <strong>ten times<\/strong> as long.\u00a0 I can understand the importance dictionary skills.\u00a0 Students must know how to use a paper-based dictionary properly.\u00a0 I think by tenth grade that skill has been mastered.<\/p>\n<p>We are now talking about learning a foreign language.\u00a0 Time on task should include as little time as possible flipping through pages of a dictionary.\u00a0 Study time should focus on reading comprehension in context and speaking.\u00a0 A web-based translator helps all these things.\u00a0 The free Yahoo Spanish\/English dictionary has the definition and an audio file of each word properly spoken.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter says the fear of the teacher is that students will copy whole paragraphs into translators which do not work properly.\u00a0 Just read any warning label printed on a product made in China.\u00a0\u00a0A teacher can easily identify a paragraph that has been passed through a Google-like translator.\u00a0 I can\u00a0identify it and I have not been trained to teach a foreign language.<\/p>\n<p>We have to get our heads out of the <strong>old school<\/strong> way of thinking.\u00a0 We are surrounded by technology that can help us complete the tedious tasks associated with subjects like foreign language.\u00a0 If we do not use these technologies to help us, our country will continue to lose ground in the global economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m helping one of my kids with some Spanish homework.\u00a0 She didn&#8217;t know which definition of a word was correct.\u00a0 I have never had Spanish, but I know how to use several translator web sites.\u00a0 My daughter says they are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/25\/dictionary-the-old-school-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336,340,2],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech","tag-education","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}