Spotlight on Teaching and Learning. Early language acquisition. Your brain on stairs.

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• Concordia's Spotlight on Teaching and Learning includes: an opinion piece in the online and paper editions of theMontreal Gazette by Nancy Acemian, senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, who explains how digital tools in the classroom greatly enhance the university learning experience; an interview on CBC's 'Homerun', last Friday afternoon, with Caroline Fitzpatrick, affiliate researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre. Fitzpatrick talks about her recent study of bullying in school and how the lack of a sense of security negatively impacts students' classroom engagement (no link available). The study is described in the Millennium Post and is noted in an article in The Toronto Star.
• Maman pour la vie references the research of Krista Byers-Heinlein into early child development and language acquisition and her conclusion that babies can differentiate languages even when still in the womb.
• WDR radio, reporting (in German) on the acquisition of multiple languages by children, speaks with Byers-Heinlein about her study of bilingualism in small children.
• Netscape.com describes a recent study led by former PERFORM Centre researcher Jason Steffener, according to which continuing education and simple exercise like climbing stairs can significantly slow ageing of the brain.

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