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Short activitivity to show how flexibile our language is and how d...

Chris Scaturo
Chris Scaturo over 10 years ago

Short activitivity to show how flexibile our language is and how difficult collective learning would have been for our non sapien ancestors.
 
Step 1: As a class, choose 200 random words. (I had 15 kids choose 14 words each)
 
Step 2: Answer the following questions using only the words listed:
 
1. How should we try to kill that mammoth?
2. Explain why you should marry me.
3. Give directions for a simple task.
4. Come up with a plan to improve our cave.
5. Describe a physical landscape.
6. Come up with your own question!

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  • Meaghan Mihalic
    Meaghan Mihalic over 1 year ago

    Chris Scaturo this is hilarious. I almost spit out what I was eating when I read how to swim. I think this would make such an excellent opener to Collective Learning and Early Humans. I'm wondering about effective reflection questions....maybe, what types of words were most helpful? What was frustrating about this process?...

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  • Chris Scaturo
    Chris Scaturo 3 months ago in reply to Meaghan Mihalic

    Year 11 of this!    Doing this today.    This year I am including the idea of lying.     I am focusing a little more on how language guided social dynamics.  

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  • Becca Horowitz
    Becca Horowitz 2 months ago in reply to Chris Scaturo

    Chris Scaturo So, how did the lying go? Would love to hear your favorites.

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  • Bennett Sherry
    Bennett Sherry 2 months ago in reply to Chris Scaturo

     Chris Scaturo This is definitely one of my favorite posts in the community. Have you ever talked about gossip in this activity?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooming,_Gossip_and_the_Evolution_of_Language

    "You and me death together" is amazing. I can't wait to hear what lies students come up with this year!

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  • Bennett Sherry
    Bennett Sherry 2 months ago in reply to Chris Scaturo

     Chris Scaturo This is definitely one of my favorite posts in the community. Have you ever talked about gossip in this activity?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooming,_Gossip_and_the_Evolution_of_Language

    "You and me death together" is amazing. I can't wait to hear what lies students come up with this year!

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  • Chris Scaturo
    Chris Scaturo 2 months ago in reply to Bennett Sherry

    Never, that seems to be another by product of complex language.   The kids do tend to notice that communicating is hard with such few words/ideas.   One of the things we talk about it how often and easy we talk.  Gossip (and the social support of it) seems like another benefit.

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