by Ragav Satish on February 1, 2012
A key tenet at Membean is that “learning should fit the learner.” The clamor of education reform has made this mantra a platitude of sorts — incredibly easy to profess as an ideal but incredibly hard to achieve.
The pragmatic way we get to an individualized learning environment is through a series of baby steps — tweaking each facet of the learning environment in increments until it meets the need of each learner. With this in mind we’ve added another feature – grade dependent, teacher controlled reading rates.
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by Ragav Satish on January 27, 2012
One Memlet that we constantly try to improve is “Example Sentences.” One goal (among many) of this Memlet is to demonstrate that the words you learn are not exotic but are in common use in mainstream published content.
Membean’s spidering tools crawl the web searching for relevant sentences across a wide spectrum of subjects – from science to politics, from literature to cooking. If sentences resonate with a student, learning occurs swiftly. Ideally, we’d like a student to select subject areas that interest them and tailor example sentences to match. Until we achieve that Shangri-La, we’ll aim to provide rich and varied uses of every words.
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by Brett on January 8, 2012
Our educational etymology work this past week on English word origins included the English prefixes sub-: “under” (including its variants suf-, suc-, sug-, sup-, and sur-) and super- with its variant sur-: “over.” In order to keep a superlative hold on your English vocabulary, may I suggest that you temporarily (and freely!) subscribe to this blog to help you keep your vocabulary from going “under,” and your academic head “above” water? Some of the English vocabulary words that we’ll review in this Latin root words blog will include subway, subterranean, suffix, succor, suggest, support, surreal, Super Bowl, Superman, surname, and surface.
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