{"id":2736,"date":"2010-03-18T09:12:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2010-03-18T09:21:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:21:53","slug":"tools-emphasize-speaking-recording-from-edweek-org-by-michelle-r-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/03\/18\/tools-emphasize-speaking-recording-from-edweek-org-by-michelle-r-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools Fuel Demand for High-Tech Language Labs &#8212; from edweek.org by Michelle R. Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/dd\/articles\/2010\/01\/08\/02languagelabs.h03.html?cmp=clp-edweek\" target=\"_blank\">Schools Fuel Demand for High-Tech Language Labs<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from edweek.org by Michelle R. Davis<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When students of Spanish teacher Sean M. Boettinger put on their headsets in his Maryland high school\u2019s language lab, their concentration heightens, he says.\u00a0 The up-to-date digital equipment, says the teacher, keeps them engaged with teenage-friendly electronics, allows them to get more Spanish listening and speaking practice, and, most important, blocks out distractions. \u201cParticularly in classes that have a hard time paying attention, having those headphones on, and me being able to speak through that microphone directly into their ears with no outside noises, is a great focusing tool,\u201d says Boettinger, who teaches at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School in the 134,000-student Prince George\u2019s County district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/dd\/articles\/2010\/01\/08\/02languagelabs.h03.html?cmp=clp-edweek\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2740\" title=\"language_learning_lab\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/language_learning_lab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/language_learning_lab.jpg 515w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/language_learning_lab-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools Fuel Demand for High-Tech Language Labs &#8212; from edweek.org by Michelle R. Davis When students of Spanish teacher Sean M. Boettinger put on their headsets in his Maryland high school\u2019s language lab, their concentration heightens, he says.\u00a0 The up-to-date digital equipment, says the teacher, keeps them engaged with teenage-friendly electronics, allows them to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,46],"tags":[4,599],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-technology","category-k-12-related","tag-k-12","tag-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}