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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ross)
Mon Jan 17 02:48:29 2005
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From: "Ross" <SylviaarchivalNUL488@nerdshack.com>
To: "Ross" <McCarthybuckerVW46@nerdshack.com>
Cc: augustin@mit.edu, aui@mit.edu, aumond@mit.edu, aunikows@mit.edu,
auroop@mit.edu
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 02:50:48 -0500
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In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. -Kathleen Norris
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best. W. Edwards Deming
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)
But, I spent the next three weeks making a piece of simple software for her son to her specifications. While I was at it, I put 4-8 pictures on the screen as well. The simple program was finished and ready for her child to see. As I was presenting it, the other children in my classroom were pushing each other to get to the computer screen to touch that Touch Window and hear the word spoken again and again. I looked at these kids and was amazed. There was no music, no animation, nothing cute about this program at all, just real pictures with real words. I was stunned. I just watched the children. Within 10 minutes, several children who had never said a word in their life, made approximations of several words. I was hooked.
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
That flight attendant is not missing playing below the bridge at this exact moment. THE PARENT arrived back on the scene. She gave me a tape by Dr. Laura Meyers from UCLA. I listened to that tape eight times. I listened over and over and heard the same thing again and again. Ms. Meyers said, 'These kids may need to hear a word many times (perhaps 72 times) before they ever say a word. A computer can be patient and say it the same way every time.' Now I understood. I was not patient enough. I did not allow the student to hear the words over and over. I was interrupting their learning by interjecting, when they were totally engrossed in what they were doing. I was asking questions they were not ready to answer. They were just learning language. They didn't have the answers yet.
I get from most parents is ?Can you teach my child to talk?? This question has haunted me for years. Have you practiced jumping yet?
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. -Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. -Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
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