183: The End of Cursive

There’s more than one way to speak English.

But too often, kids who speak other varieties of English find themselves on the wrong side of their teachers. How can educators — and everyone else — avoid linguistic discrimination and value the different kinds of English all around us?

Daniel Midgley speaks with author and educator Anne Charity Hudley on this episode of Talk the Talk.

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Turning on spell check made good spellers worse.
http://www.education.com/magazine/article/spell_check/

Spell checkers aren’t normally sensitive to context.
http://blog.dictionary.com/autocorrect/

But Google Docs is. Try some of our sentences yourself.
https://docs.google.com/

The Facebook group for the 2014 Indigenous Language Challenge
https://www.facebook.com/groups/539092832857899/

Forget Ice Water, Take the Indigenous Language Challenge Instead
https://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/11/12/forget-ice-water-take-the-indigenous-language-challenge-instead/

About the Indigenous Language Challenge
http://www.ourlanguages.net.au/news/international/item/1190-the-indigenous-language-challenge.html

Which English You Speak Has Nothing to Do With How Smart You Are
http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/10/14/english_variation_not_related_to_intelligence_code_switching_and_other_ways.html

We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom
http://charityhudleymallinson.com/wdl/

Audio from Language in Baltimore: “As you listen, you’ll hear the teachers talk about how learning about language variation positively affected their teaching practices and their relationships with their students, and how they have gained the information and confidence to be able to work more effectively with culturally and linguistically diverse students in their classrooms.  You’ll also hear the creative and insightful strategies and practices that the teachers have used in their classrooms to engage with their students and to support linguistically informed teaching.”
http://baltimorelanguage.com/language-variation-in-the-classroom-podcast/

Video from Christine Mallinson: Language variation professional development
http://youtu.be/tHmDm56Irbk

Anti-bullying movement to define “upstanders” has meaning
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2014/11/10/sayreville-football-upstander-bullying-dictionary-definition/18823149/

Sign the Change.org petition
https://www.change.org/p/oxford-dictionary-define-the-word-upstander

Ships in the Night 7, featuring Daniel
https://www.facebook.com/shipsnight