“He does have a reputation for being the best Scrabble player ever and they know about him already, but they probably didn’t necessarily expect him to go in for the first time and beat them at their own game.”
I as well would find this very surprising.
Warner believes Richards’s exceptional abilities stem from a photographic memory and rare mathematical skill. At the very elite level, Scrabble skills rely more on an ability to calculate mathematical probabilities than on linguistic facility.
This relates back to the Gee article when talks about the semiotic domains design grammars.
Once we learn to start with such questions, we find that it is often atricky question as to what semiotic domain is being entered when someone islearning or has learned something.
Very true. It is difficult to know the semiotic domain without knowing the true purpose of a game.
It might seen odd to call basketball a semiotic domain.However, in basketball, particular words, actions, objects, and images take ondistinctive meanings. In basketball, “dribble” does not mean drool; a pick
This kind of reminds me of slang. Two different people might use the same word but have a different meaning for the same word.
In fact, in many modern high school and college textbooks in the sci-ences images not only take up more space, they now carry meanings that areindependent of the words in the text.
This is very true, but I can remember from Highschool I always found it easier for me to comprehend the text when a image was shown with the text. So in a they are dependent on each other.
The following “I can” statements will guide all of the learning and assessment activities throughout this course.
This is different for me, and I love the idea of the “I can” which will give me a better idea of what I will be aiming to accomplish in this course.