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| Title | Distance Ed Team Scores Big |
| Body | Yesterday 12 schools attended our small high-school foreign language day in the beanfields of Northwest Tennessee. We stage a language and culture bowl contest with questions geared to Tennessee and national standards. This year, the number 2 team in the competition was a distance ed. team, engaged in remote learning under supervision of a local assistant. Not only were they distance ed., but they were from the county hardest hit by tornados this spring. All the teams performed well, and the scores were close. I am happy to say, we seem to draw the best teachers in the area to this contest. I think that this, which, I admit, is anecdotal, along with lots of solid research should encourage even the most recalcitrant among us to reconsider the what technology can do to help our students learn better, and perhaps to admit that distance learning of foreign language material is not an outrageous idea. Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D Professor of French Vice President, American Association of Teachers of French Director, Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center Director, Globe-Gate Intercultural Web Project Director, Andy Holt Virtual Library Department of Modern Foreign Languages Univ. of Tennessee at Martin / Martin TN 38238 Email: bobp@utm.edu Peckham, R. Distance ed in FL learning. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (11 Apr. 2006). |
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| Inputdate | 2006-04-12 12:25:00 |
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