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  1. Feb 2021
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    1. There are a myriad of things to get right and wrong, and theoretical lin-guistics as it is now undoubtedly has some things right and some thingswrong. Theoretical linguistics as it might have been had Chomsky spokenNavajo would have had other things right and wrong, though it may wellhave had some of the same things right and wrong as well.

      True. Theories are conditional on the information we receive. The differences between basing theories on the language spoken would've had a profound influence on the outcomes.

    2. And, per-haps, you can do this because of your reading or other vicarious experiences.

      Watching shows/movies that contain academic characters, such as "The Big Bang Theory." They discuss 'work' all the time.

    3. This is “active learning.” However, such learning is not yet what I call“critical learning.”

      I have always been a supporter of active learning.

    4. Many people who don’t play video games, especially older people, are sure tosay that playing video games is “a waste of time.”

      I heard this a lot growing up (when videos games were fairly new). The first words my oldest son could read was "Game Over." Thank you Mario.

    5. It is called this because, in the past, thefirst three years of school were largely devoted to learning to read (in thesense of being able to decode print and get the literal meanings of texts), andfourth grade was where children began to read to learn (in the subject areas)

      Yes! This is where so many children fall behind. They learn to recognize the letters and sight words but not how those words translate to concepts.

    6. the combination ofthe two modes communicates things that neither of the modes does sepa-rately.

      This form of learning has been very beneficial for my son. He is dyslexic and having a visual to add to the information is helped.