African American or Black English often has been used to refer to the language features of African Americans that are most unlike Standardized American English (SAE).
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A variety of terms have been used to describe English as spoken by African Americans in the United States, Black English (BE) including Ebonics, and African American Vernacular English. African American English (AAE) and African American Language (AAL) are the most encompassing terms used by educators and linguists to refer to all varieties of English used by speakers where African Americans live or historically have lived.
Black English (BE), Ebonics, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), African American English (AAE), African American Language (AAL)
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ethical uses
Appropriate engagement with AI that supports learning without replacing student thinking
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articulation stage
Metacognitive strategies where students think critically about learning process and choices
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prompt engineering
Crafting effective input prompts to guide AI output
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scaffolding
Support provided to learners that is gradually removed as competence grows
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Cognitive Apprenticeship Model (CAM)
Instructional framework emphasizing modeling, coaching, scaffolding, articulation, reflection, exploration
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co-creation
Where human and AI collaborate
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LLM
"Large Language Model"
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we can’t recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak for the very first time
for - unlearning language - key insight - language - cannot recapture same process we used as child - cannot recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak language for the very first time - basically, we lose access to that original vocal learning circuit as an adult - question - language learning - what is this vocal learning circuit of an infant? - why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child? - observation - clue - language - accidental world recall and substitution - a clue to how we remember words - I wrote the above sentence "why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?" when I meant to write: - "why do we LOSE access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?' - This very observation also has the same mistake: - "observation - clue - language - accidental world" instead of: - observation - clue - language - accidental WORD"! - I've noticed this accidental word substitution when we are in the midst of automatically composing sentences quite often and have also wondered about it often. - I think it offers an important clue about how we remember words, and that is critical for recall for using language itself. - We must store words in clusters that are indicated by the accidental recall
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- key insight - language - cannot recapture same process we used as child
- unlearning language
- observation - clue - language - accidental word recall and substitution - a clue to how we remember words
- question - language learning - what is this vocal learning circuit of an infant?
- question - why do we lose access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?
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- Oct 2023
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Take Alter's treatment of the cycle of stories in which the first two matriarchs, Sarah and Rebekah, conspire against elder sons for the benefit of younger ones. Sarah insists that Abraham drive Ishmael, his firstborn, and Ishmael's mother, Hagar, into the desert to die, to protect the inheritance of Sarah's son, Isaac. Rebekah tells her son Jacob to trick his father, the now elderly Isaac, into giving him a blessing rightfully owed to Esau, Jacob's ever-so-slightly older twin brother. The matriarchs' behavior is indefensible, yet God defends it. He instructs Abraham to do as Sarah says, and after Jacob takes flight from an enraged Esau God comes to Jacob in a dream, blesses him, and tells him that he, too, like Abraham and Isaac before him, will father a great nation.Alter doesn't try to explain away the paradox of a moral God sanctioning immoral acts. Instead he lets the Bible convey the seriousness of the problem. When Abraham balks at abandoning Ishmael and Hagar, God commands, "Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her voice." Rebekah, while instructing Jacob on how to dress like Esau so as to steal his blessing, echoes God's phrase -- listen to my voice" -- not once but twice in an effort to reassure him. As we read on in Alter's translation, we realize that the word "voice" ("kol" in Hebrew) is one of his "key words," that if we could only manage to keep track of all the ways it is used it would unlock new worlds of meaning. In the story of Hagar and Ishmael, God's messenger will tell Hagar that God will save them because he has heard the voice of the crying boy. And the all but blind Isaac will recognize the sound of Jacob's voice, so that although his younger son stands before him with his arms covered in goatskin (to make them as hairy as Esau's), and has even put on his brother's clothes (to smell more like a hunter), Isaac nearly grasps the deceit being perpetrated against him.
Something fascinating here with respect to orality and associative memory in ancient texts at the border of literacy.
What do others have to say about the use of "key words" with respect to storytelling and orality with respect to associative memory.
The highlighted portion is an interesting example.
What do other examples look like? How common might they be? What ought we call them?
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Alter's translation puts into practice his belief that the rules of biblical style require it to reiterate, artfully, within scenes and from scene to scene, a set of "key words," a term Alter derives from Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, who in an epic labor that took nearly 40 years to complete, rendered the Hebrew Bible into a beautifully Hebraicized German. Key words, as Alter has explained elsewhere, clue the reader in to what's at stake in a particular story, serving either as "the chief means of thematic exposition" within episodes or as connective tissue between them.
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