www.duolingo.com
DuoLingo is a free language-learning website. Duolingo offers extensive written lessons and dictation, with less practice speaking. It has a gamified skill tree which users can progress through, and avocabulary section where learned words can be practiced.
Users gain “skill points” as they learn a language, such as when they complete a lesson. Skills are considered “learned” when users complete all the lessons associated with the skill. Up to 14 points are awarded per lesson, with one deducted for each mistake. Users start with four “lives” on early lessons, and three on later lessons, a “life” being lost with each mistake. A user must retry the lesson if they make a mistake after all lives have been lost. Duolingo also includes a timed practice feature, where users are given 30 seconds and twenty questions and awarded a skill point and seven or ten additional seconds for each correct answer.The whole course teaches more than 2,000 words.
Duolingo uses a heavily data-driven approach to education. At each step along the way, the system measures which questions the users struggle with, and what sorts of mistakes they make. It then aggregates that data and learns from the patterns it sees.
8th graders have continued work on their Comic Strip Projects this week and have been learning how to access Spanish apps on their new Apple devices.
7th graders have done work with "El árbol genealógico" (Family Tree) and have been learning about possessive adjectives in Spanish. They were also introduced to some Spanish contractions and how to indicate ownership in Spanish.
6th graders have continued working with the Spanish calendar (how the order of the days of the week differs) as well as weather, seasons, and talking about the past, present, and future using these words (Ayer era... (Yesterday was...); Hoy es... (Today is...); Mañana será... (Tomorrow will be...)
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