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Shigeru Miyagawa 宮川繁

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Professor of Linguists & Senior Associate Dean of Open Learning at MIT. Founding member of MIT OCW. shigerumiyagawa.com

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Workshop on Case Theory and Labeling of Structures. Saturday, Aug 4. UTokyo (Komaba). All in English. All are welcome! ecs.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/activity/activ…

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Spent a day at an elementary school in the disaster-affected Fukushima. Only 1-2 students per grade, so they are connecting online with others to form a "class." Incredible learners. I was inspired. Hope to work with the schools there.

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NY Times article about the oldest known narrative cave art, found in Indonesia (where the oldest such art pieces seem to be), from last week's Nature. nytimes.com/2019/12/11/sci…

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Reading “Speak, Okinawa.” The author sets herself up as a metaphor for Okinawa. The writing is stunning, the story, heartbreaking.

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My article about MOOCs just appeared in the morning edition of Nikkei (3/27) 日経朝刊にMOOCについて書いた記事が今朝(3/27 月)掲載されました。 nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO…

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My new position at MIT — Senior Associate Dean for Open Learning (担当副学部長、オープン・ラーニング). Thank you for all your support! shass.mit.edu/news/news-2017…

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"Where did language come from?" video -- short, fast, by an MIT undergrad -- now with Japanese and Spanish subtitle options. youtube.com/watch?v=BKw64R…

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Our Frontiers article on cave art and language just published. Stories in MIT News, National Geographic, AAAS, and Boston Globe, among others. news.mit.edu/2018/humans-sp…

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The discovery reported in Science that Neanderthals created cave art rectifies a bad rap they originally got. Based on 19th century ethnology, Neanderthals were said to be morally dark and unintelligent. Real science came to their rescue! theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

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ATTENTION: WAFL14 deadline for submission of abstracts is approaching: March 30! For more details, please visit our site: wafl14.mit.edu