{"id":61,"date":"2016-04-05T22:01:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslausclass\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2016-04-24T00:05:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T07:05:49","slug":"tools-for-understanding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslausclass\/tools-for-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools for Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Use Google Translate&#8217;s text-to-speech function<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.ca\/\">https:\/\/translate.google.ca\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Use Google image search<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/images.google.ca\/\">https:\/\/images.google.ca\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Or use an <strong>online dictionary<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/\">http:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddictionaries.com\/\">http:\/\/www.oxforddictionaries.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/\">http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Use FoxType as an easy thesaurus:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/foxtype.com\/thesaurus\">https:\/\/foxtype.com\/thesaurus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Use instaGROK to find key facts on a topic:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagrok.com\">https:\/\/www.instagrok.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask Google good questions<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/\">https:\/\/www.google.ca\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Poverty Simulation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Get in pairs to partner up.<\/li>\n<li>To enter the simulation, open this link in a new tab or window: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.live58.org\/survive125\">www.live58.org\/survive125<\/a><\/li>\n<li>After reading the introduction (You are Divya Patel. You work as a brickmaker in India with four children&#8230;), press the start button.<\/li>\n<li>If the donation pop-up box comes up, close it by pressing X in the top right corner.<\/li>\n<li>Proceed with the simulation. Follow the instructions and make good decisions to survive. Good luck!<\/li>\n<li>Complete the exit slip with your partner when you are done.<\/li>\n<li>After exit slip: do the simulation again on your own. Make different choices this time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use Google Translate&#8217;s text-to-speech function https:\/\/translate.google.ca\/ Use Google image search https:\/\/images.google.ca\/ Or use an online dictionary: http:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/ http:\/\/www.oxforddictionaries.com\/ http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/ Use FoxType as an easy thesaurus: https:\/\/foxtype.com\/thesaurus Use instaGROK to find key facts on a topic: https:\/\/www.instagrok.com Ask Google good questions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslausclass\/tools-for-understanding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34013,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslausclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslausclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslausclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslausclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslausclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslausclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslausclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslausclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}