TED talk - Birth of a word - initial child language, social media and mass communications April 7, 2011
Another gem via COTW (where our discussions range wide as we try to learn about collaboration and all kinds of related social interaction issues)
- COTW - Coalition of the Willing - http://www.dadamac.net/network/coalition-willing
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(snip) Instead of trying to explain this idea further, I'll just recommend this TED talk (snip) It's really quite amazing and I promise you won't miss the 20 minutes you spend watching it. He goes beyond the initial child language premise in the second half and delves into social media and mass communications.
MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.