How do you learn language?
How do you learn a word?
The first International Day of Sign Languages was this Sunday, September 23rd. I was wondering how do we learn our first language.
In the learning sciences, some believe learning is contructivist, some believe it is situated – some believe learning is individualistic and some believe it is social in nature. In most cases, learning is so complex that many of these seem like attempts at simplification to merely address our own ignorance. Once in a while though, they are illuminating.
MIT researcher Deb Roy presented one of the most illuminating TED Talks.
Listen to how his child learns to speak a word…
literally see how events affect how the world communicates…
magic sometimes does not care about what we hypothesize.
