Useful links
These are links from the book, as well as various talks and presentations. Many of these ideas have numerous sources, in which case, only a small subsample is presented.
"Madame Sensei"
A YouTube Channel . Among the videos are
- Look No Feather! How to Use Duolingo for Schools, a video tutorial series that Pamela produces with the Duolingo Educator’s Network
- Interviews with Pamela about various pedagogical techniques such as TPRS, Direct Method, the Audio-Lingual Method, and many more
- Videos on brain science and teaching remotely
- Videos that bridge the gap between Duolingo’s Japanese course and live instruction
Duolingo
Pamela is very much committed to Duolingo 's mission of free language education for everyone. Be sure to check out How To Use Duolingo for Schools (video tutorials) for tips and tricks on using Duolingo for Schools, and other interesting videos pertaining to education.
Pixton
Pixton is a free storyboarding program, that Pamela often uses to support classroom assignments, and give the students that crucial writing practice, dressed up in a fun way.
peaksay
Another free program is peaksay which helped bridge the gap when Pamela was teaching remotely. This site includes listening and speaking games.
Blooket
Blooket is also free, and simple to import Quizlet sets to. It's more fun than Quizlet Live or Kahoot.
Quizlet
For a yearly fee, you can track your students, but anyone can make or use a set for free. Quizlet is the king of flashcard apps, as it allows student choice of how they'll study.
Forgetting
AJ Kumar and Work-Learning Research both describe how we forget about 80% of what we learn every day. (And there are many others.)
The Forgetting Curve
Postulated by Hermann Ebbinghaus. The Forgetting Curve describes memory loss over time.
Repetition
There are almost too many citations to list. Just a few of them include Laufer and Rozovski-Roitblat , Horst and Goldentouch
ZIPF's Law
A specific example of the Pareto Principle, Zipf's Law specifically applies to word frequency in speach and writing.
Writing by hand
Writing things by hand helps memory, as described by James and Engelhardt and Mueller and Oppenheimer .