In this activity answer questions about two TED Talk lecturesonline; one by Patricia Kuhl , co-director of the Institute forBrain and Learning Sciences at the University of Washington and oneby MIT cognitive scientist Deb Roy.
First watch (transcript also available) TED Talk by PatriciaKuhl, "The Linguistic Genius of Babies"
http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies
and answer the following questions:
(1) Summarize what Patricia Kuhlâs lab is studying?
(2) What do the Japanese and English and Mandarin and Englishexperiments with babies demonstrate?
(3) What might the practical benefits of Patricia Kuhlâsresearch be? In other words, how might this kind of research helppeople?
Next, watch (transcript also available) TED Talk by Deb Roy,"The Birth of a Word"
http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word?language=en4
and answer the following questions:
(1) What do you think Deb Roy means by "feedback loops" in hisdiscussion of his sonâs language acquisition?
(2) What do you think Deb Roy means by the term wordscapes?
(3) In his talk, Deb Roy states:
"As our world becomes increasingly instrumented and we have thecapabilities to collect and connect the dots between what peopleare saying and the context they're saying it in, what's emerging isan ability to see new social structures and dynamics that havepreviously not been seen. It's like building a microscope ortelescope and revealing new structures about our own behavioraround communication. And I think the implications here areprofound, whether it's for science, for commerce, for government,or perhaps most of all, for us as individuals."
What do you think might be some of the implications?
In this activity answer questions about two TED Talk lecturesonline; one by Patricia Kuhl , co-director of the Institute forBrain and Learning Sciences at the University of Washington and oneby MIT cognitive scientist Deb Roy.
First watch (transcript also available) TED Talk by PatriciaKuhl, "The Linguistic Genius of Babies"
http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies
and answer the following questions:
(1) Summarize what Patricia Kuhlâs lab is studying?
(2) What do the Japanese and English and Mandarin and Englishexperiments with babies demonstrate?
(3) What might the practical benefits of Patricia Kuhlâsresearch be? In other words, how might this kind of research helppeople?
Next, watch (transcript also available) TED Talk by Deb Roy,"The Birth of a Word"
http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word?language=en4
and answer the following questions:
(1) What do you think Deb Roy means by "feedback loops" in hisdiscussion of his sonâs language acquisition?
(2) What do you think Deb Roy means by the term wordscapes?
(3) In his talk, Deb Roy states:
"As our world becomes increasingly instrumented and we have thecapabilities to collect and connect the dots between what peopleare saying and the context they're saying it in, what's emerging isan ability to see new social structures and dynamics that havepreviously not been seen. It's like building a microscope ortelescope and revealing new structures about our own behavioraround communication. And I think the implications here areprofound, whether it's for science, for commerce, for government,or perhaps most of all, for us as individuals."
What do you think might be some of the implications?
