I forgot to post this! I wasn’t sure how to make a post about the Collab Ultra when it has our work in there 🙂
This was the first time in a long time that I had used this program. I found it a little challenging to get back into the groove of things in how to add comments and stop the video. I watched  Lera Borditsky’s SAR lecture from May 2017 and figured out how to comment in the side on points made during the lecture. It was very interesting to hear views and then link to our readings what they were talking about. Languages I believe certainly shape the way we think. During this I kept thinking about the primary students and how they form sentences. It shows me that they are thinking but not forming proper sentences the way adults would in conversations. They are forming broken sentences or part of the sentence to get their thoughts across.
This bit jumped out at me:
“I kept thinking about the primary students and how they form sentences. It shows me that they are thinking but not forming proper sentences the way adults would in conversations. They are forming broken sentences or part of the sentence to get their thoughts across.”
It kinda speaks to how arbitrary language is. I teach French and I constantly encounter kids saying in frustration, “Why do they do it like that?” Those kids are working off the assumption that English is the first language and everything else is going from there – which is of course closer to the opposite of what’s true than anything else.
And due to the fact that the talk linked to above is not precisely the one we watched in the link through the module on Canvas, I also learned in watching this that people who give academic talks do them like musicians or comedians – touring around and repeating the same thing to different audiences. I never considered that.