from Diary 2023-09-19 Knowledge acquisition: the importance of joint attention Summary: The importance of “joint warning” and “acquiring a common language” in learning baby language and acquiring new knowledge. While lectures by experts repeat basic knowledge, limited information is noticeably spread on social networking sites, which can lead to confusion in the use of terminology.
Maybe “joint attention” and “acquiring a common language” are necessary both when a baby learns language and when acquiring knowledge in a new field? I wondered.
Joint Attention and Related Figures
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1: Suppose knowledge is a tree like the one on the left.
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2: If you listen to a lecture by someone who knows the details, you will inevitably be repeatedly imprinted with the root of the tree as you follow the tree and hear the explanation.
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3: On the other hand, on social networking sites, certain narrow concepts are buzzed about by people who see certain keywords and re-transmit them.
- Often there is a situation where “that’s not the right word to describe it.”
- People who learn in this environment have trouble communicating because they call A even what a properly educated person would call B or C.
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