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    deirdremf
    Registered Users Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭deirdremf


    whatthefeck wrote: »
    This is a great idea for teaching children in India, could the same idea be used to teach Irish?

    I think so = is dóigh liom é

    Volunteers give one hour a week to help teach a class via Skype.

    http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXxYgpQhsrU

    I watched the first video, and I have to say that the presenter is a great communicator. However, two specific things crossed my mind about the content.
    The first was that basically this is an initiative to promote the English language - although it doesn't specifically say so.

    The second, and the one that I thought could be of particular value to teaching Irish, was the bit at between 3 and 4 minutes in about the Telegu kids who couldn't communicate with the computer by speaking to it, until they learnt to pronounce English well.
    I have often thought that this would be a wonderful way to teach kids to pronounce Irish properly - tá instead of taw, ach instead of ock, dhá instead of gaw and so on.
    Of course, it would require quite a bit of investment, and I can't see that coming from the Department of Education.


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